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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Liberty St / W Front St median real estate price is $562,237, which is more expensive than 59.3% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey and 74.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Liberty St / W Front St is currently $2,521, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 76.9% of New Jersey neighborhoods.

Liberty St / W Front St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Liberty St / W Front St 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 small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.

Real estate vacancies in Liberty St / W Front St are 5.5%, which is lower than one will find in 63.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Liberty St / W Front St 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

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

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Liberty St / W Front St (56.5%) than in 100.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 66.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.9% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 92.3%, which is higher than 97.4% 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.

In addition, three-deckers, duplexes, old Victorian homes cut up into apartments. Independent stores on the corner selling pizza. These are some of the hallmarks of neighborhoods with lots of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. The Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood really stands out in this regard, however, as it is dominated by such small apartment buildings more than nearly any other neighborhood in America. This is a stunning visual and lifestyle example of this type of neighborhood. In fact, 40.9% of the real estate here are small 2, 3, or 4 unit apartment buildings, which is a higher proportion than found in 97.2% of America's neighborhoods.

Furthermore, even if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.0% of the adult residents in the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 20.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. In the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 95.9% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas. What is also interesting to note, is that the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (57.7%) than are found in 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood has more Jamaican and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 6.2% have South American ancestry.

Liberty St / W Front St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 62.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.2% 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 Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood in Plainfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.5% 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 Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood, 66.7% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (6.8%), and 5.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 62.7% of households. Some people also speak English (36.0%).

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 Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood in Plainfield, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Jamaican (10.0%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (1.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.5%), among others. In addition, 57.7% 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 Liberty St / W Front St neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (56.5%) carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (43.1%) . Despite relying on the automobile to get to work, residents of this neighborhood share the ride more than most neighborhoods, reducing traffic, pollution, and saving money.


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