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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Guilford Rd / S 69th St median real estate price is $133,000, which is less expensive than 85.7% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods and 89.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Guilford Rd / S 69th St is currently $1,740, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 44.8% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.

Guilford Rd / S 69th St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

Guilford Rd / S 69th St real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) townhomes 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 Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.

Real estate vacancies in Guilford Rd / S 69th St are 4.7%, which is lower than one will find in 68.7% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Guilford Rd / S 69th 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

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.

Real Estate

Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood could be your paradise. With 75.4% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 0.3% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

In addition, if you like crowded places, then you will probably enjoy the the Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive data analysis, this neighborhood is more densely populated than 95.9% of neighborhoods in the U.S., with 24,019 people per square mile living here.

Modes of Transportation

More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood about it; they already know. 19.5% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% 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 Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood buck this trend. 22.5% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood has more Greek and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 3.1% have Haitian ancestry.

Guilford Rd / S 69th St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood in Upper Darby are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood, 39.5% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 13.4% in executive, management, and professional 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 Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, French, Arabic and African languages.

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 Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood in Upper Darby, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (10.7%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Greek roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Jamaican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (3.8%), among others. In addition, 20.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Guilford Rd / S 69th St neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (58.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (20.1%) and 7.8% of residents also take the train 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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