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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Spa Springs / Columbus Circle median real estate price is $520,457, which is more expensive than 51.7% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey and 71.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Spa Springs / Columbus Circle is currently $2,612, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 73.0% of New Jersey neighborhoods.

Spa Springs / Columbus Circle is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Spa Springs / Columbus Circle real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Spa Springs / Columbus Circle neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

In Spa Springs / Columbus Circle, the current vacancy rate is 1.1%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 91.1% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Spa Springs / Columbus Circle is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the Spa Springs / Columbus Circle neighborhood has more Dominican and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 30.3% have Puerto Rican ancestry.

Spa Springs / Columbus Circle is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 68.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Spa Springs / Columbus Circle neighborhood in Perth Amboy are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the Spa Springs / Columbus Circle neighborhood, 37.4% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.3%), and 18.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Spa Springs / Columbus Circle neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 68.7% of households. Some people also speak English (27.6%).

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 Spa Springs / Columbus Circle neighborhood in Perth Amboy, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Dominican (33.7%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (30.3%), and residents who report South American roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.6%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 33.7% 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 Spa Springs / Columbus Circle neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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