Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr median real estate price is $270,411, which is more expensive than 50.3% of the neighborhoods in Michigan and 32.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr is currently $1,669, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 44.4% of Michigan neighborhoods.
Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Westland, Michigan.
Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two 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 Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.8% in Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 53.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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 Westland, the Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 89.0% of commuters who live in the Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood has more Polish and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 4.1% have Eastern European ancestry.
Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood in Westland are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.9% of U.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 Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood, 27.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.2%), and 20.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Arabic.
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 Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood in Westland, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (18.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.8%), among others.
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 Edward N Hines Dr / Maple Grove Dr neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (89.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.