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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Far Rockaway Northwest median real estate price is $716,860, which is more expensive than 59.0% of the neighborhoods in New York and 83.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Far Rockaway Northwest is currently $1,797, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 73.1% of New York neighborhoods.

Far Rockaway Northwest is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Queens, New York.

Far Rockaway Northwest real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Far Rockaway Northwest 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 8.9% in Far Rockaway Northwest. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 43.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

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.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 29.4% 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 99.9% of all neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood buck this trend. 36.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 35,922 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 97.6% of the nation's neighborhoods.

In addition, corner bodegas, stores on the first floor and apartments above, former grand Victorian residences converted into apartments, three-deckers built shoulder-to-shoulder, duplexes. Such building types define the real estate of neighborhoods dominated by small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. Many are in older core neighborhoods of Eastern and Midwestern cities, or historic town centers in their hinterlands. If you wax romantic about the look and feel of such neighborhoods, with fresh pizza, falafel and an independent florist at the corner, then you might find the Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood worth a close look. This neighborhood is an absolutely outstanding example of the dominance of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings compared to neighborhoods across the nation, as they make up a substantial portion of this neighborhood's real estate stock. In fact, no less than 39.0% of the real estate here is made up of such dwellings, which is higher than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 21.1% of the Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 97.3% of America's neighborhoods.

Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood has more Jamaican and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 8.3% have Dominican ancestry.

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 Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood in Queens are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.4% 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 Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood, 29.7% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.7%), and 17.4% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.4%).

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 Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood in Queens, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Jamaican (9.1%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report South American roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (7.1%), along with some African ancestry residents (5.7%), among others. In addition, 38.1% 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 Far Rockaway Northwest neighborhood spend longer than one hour commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), one of the longer commutes in America, which is a potential downside for residents of this neighborhood.

Here most residents (38.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (21.1%) and 16.0% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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