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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres median real estate price is $458,236, which is more expensive than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in Maryland and 64.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres is currently $2,528, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 44.9% of Maryland neighborhoods.

Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lanham, Maryland.

Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes 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 Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Real estate vacancies in Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres are 3.7%, which is lower than one will find in 75.8% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres 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 Lanham, the Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 9.2% have African ancestry.

Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (44.1%) than are found in 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood in Lanham are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.8% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood, 33.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 18.1% 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 Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood is English, spoken by 42.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, African languages and French.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood in Lanham, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (22.9%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (19.9%), and residents who report African roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.8%), among others. In addition, 44.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 Good Luck Heights / Seabrook Acres neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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