Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop median real estate price is $579,625, which is more expensive than 47.7% of the neighborhoods in New York and 75.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop is currently $1,560, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 80.8% of New York neighborhoods.
Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Brooklyn, New York.
Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop 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 Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Real estate vacancies in Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop are 5.1%, which is lower than one will find in 65.8% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop 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.
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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (30.2% ride the bus) than 99.7% 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.
Also, in the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood, 20.3% 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 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Real Estate
The real estate in the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop 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, 97.8% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 99.6% of American neighborhoods.
In addition, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 100.0%, which is higher than 99.3% 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.
Furthermore, the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 43,408 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.1% of the nation's neighborhoods.
Also of note, the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 86.8% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.
Finally, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 84.0% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 17.1% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.1% of all neighborhoods in America.
People
One of the unique characteristics of the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, one of the most interesting things about the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 55.4% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Car Ownership
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 45.8% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Russian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 6.7% have Russian ancestry.
Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood in Brooklyn are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.4% 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 Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood, 35.0% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 11.8% in manufacturing and laborer 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 Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood is English, spoken by 60.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Russian, Spanish, German/Yiddish and French.
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 Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (10.9%). There are also a number of people of Russian ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (5.4%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (5.4%), among others. In addition, 40.6% 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 Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (44.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (30.2%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (24.8%) and 20.3% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. The bus provides a valuable service in the Vandalia Ave / Bethel Loop neighborhood of Brooklyn by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.
