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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center median real estate price is $438,168, which is more expensive than 46.8% of the neighborhoods in Maryland and 60.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center is currently $2,402, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 52.6% of Maryland neighborhoods.

Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Frederick, Maryland.

Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) townhomes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Real estate vacancies in Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center are 4.4%, which is lower than one will find in 70.7% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Frederick, the Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood could be your paradise. With 56.1% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 0.9% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

People

Of particular note, 4.8% of the people in the Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Diversity

Did you know that the Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood has more Hungarian and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 5.8% have Dominican ancestry.

Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood in Frederick are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 41.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.2% 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 Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood, 50.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (12.2%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

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 Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood in Frederick, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Asian roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (5.8%), along with some South American ancestry residents (5.3%), among others. In addition, 13.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Mountain Village / Ballenger Creek Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (25.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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