Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave median real estate price is $560,665, which is more expensive than 45.9% of the neighborhoods in New York and 74.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave is currently $2,410, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 61.2% of New York neighborhoods.
Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bronx, New York.
Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave 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 Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave, the current vacancy rate is 2.2%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 84.9% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
People
The Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Also of note, 53.5% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.2% of the adult residents in the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood about it; they already know. 18.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
Car Ownership
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood buck this trend. 51.8% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Modes of Transportation
In the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood, 34.2% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (18.4% ride the bus) than 98.3% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.
Real Estate
96.1% of the real estate in the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
In addition, the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 45,270 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.2% of the nation's neighborhoods.
Furthermore, the real estate in the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 80.9% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 96.9% of American neighborhoods.
Occupations
There are more people living in the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (59.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Diversity
Did you know that the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood has more Dominican and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 27.1% have Puerto Rican ancestry.
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 Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood in Bronx are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 53.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.2% 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 Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood, 40.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 35.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.1%), and 8.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 53.4% of households. Some people also speak English (42.2%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood in Bronx, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Dominican (31.1%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (27.1%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (3.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 24.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Sound View Ave / Fteley Ave neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (47.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (34.2%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (18.4%) and 15.1% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile for their daily commute. This neighborhood is distinguished by the high number of residents who take the train to work each day, which can be a very good way to get to work at a lower cost and with less pollution.
