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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway median real estate price is $335,614, which is less expensive than 71.7% of Maryland neighborhoods and 51.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway is currently $1,122, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 98.1% of Maryland neighborhoods.

Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) townhomes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway has a 13.3% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 73.6% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Also, in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 18.0% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 97.8% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

People

One of the unique characteristics of the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America. The Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (76.9%) than found in 99.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

In addition, of particular note, 3.7% of the people in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Also, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.0% of the adult residents in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

There are more people living in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (44.2%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 64.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 56.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

In addition, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 96.8%, which is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.

Diversity

Did you know that the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood has more Jamaican and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 8.5% have African ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood in Baltimore are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 76.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood, 55.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 19.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.0%), and 10.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood in Baltimore, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (12.2%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.9%).

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (48.6%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (18.2%) and 18.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. The bus provides a valuable service in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood of Baltimore by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.


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