Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine median real estate price is $1,136,864, which is more expensive than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in Rhode Island and 93.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine is currently $3,468, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 93.6% of the neighborhoods in Rhode Island.
Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Newport, Rhode Island. This is a coastal neighborhood (i.e., is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet).
Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes 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 Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 18.4%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 84.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (11.0%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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 Newport, the Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.
In addition, if you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 60.4% of the residential real estate in the Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 96.6% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine 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 Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, a majority of the adults in the Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for Rhode Island by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in Rhode Island. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates, college students and active retirees.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 57.5% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Did you know that the Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood has more Irish and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 37.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 5.4% have Portuguese ancestry.
Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood in Newport are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 82.5% 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 Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood, 57.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (8.3%), and 7.4% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).
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 Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood in Newport, RI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (37.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.6%), among others.
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 Eustis Eastons Pond / Kay Catherine neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (71.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.