Long Island Expy / Main St median real estate price is $1,086,299, which is more expensive than 79.9% of the neighborhoods in New York and 93.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Long Island Expy / Main St is currently $3,499, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 67.7% of the neighborhoods in New York.
Long Island Expy / Main St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Queens, New York.
Long Island Expy / Main St real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) small apartment buildings and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
In Long Island Expy / Main St, the current vacancy rate is 0.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 100.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Long Island Expy / Main St is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Queens, the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
In addition, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 36.1% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Furthermore, if you like crowded places, then you will probably enjoy the the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive data analysis, this neighborhood is more densely populated than 95.7% of neighborhoods in the U.S., with 23,460 people per square mile living here.
People
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Long Island Expy / Main St community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, one of the really interesting characteristics about the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood is that, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research, it is an excellent choice in which to reside for college students. Due to its popularity among college students who already choose to live here, its walkability, and its above average safety from crime, the neighborhood is ideal for prospective or already-enrolled college students. Between semesters and during school breaks, you'll notice that the excitement here fluctuates with the college seasons. Despite the excitement however, parents of college-age children can rest easy knowing that this neighborhood has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 0.9% of college-friendly places to live in the state of New York.
Modes of Transportation
In the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood, 28.8% 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 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 20.2% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood has more Asian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 68.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 10.1% have South American ancestry.
Long Island Expy / Main St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 48.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all 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. What is interesting to note, is that the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (56.9%) than are found in 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood in Queens are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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 Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood, 43.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood is Chinese, spoken by 48.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood in Queens, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (68.4%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.9%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 56.9% 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 Long Island Expy / Main St neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (56.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (35.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (28.8%) and 13.2% 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.
