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Real Estate Prices & Overview

The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne median real estate price is $264,197, which is more expensive than 31.8% of the neighborhoods in Virginia and 36.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne is currently $1,945, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 59.8% of Virginia neighborhoods.

The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Alexandria, Virginia.

The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne 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 mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

In The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne, 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 The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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.

Real Estate

With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne 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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne (30.5%) than in 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

The The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.0% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Furthermore, from major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 95.7% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 5.5% have South American ancestry.

The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (45.4%) than are found in 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood in Alexandria are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.2% 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 The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood, 38.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.9%), and 11.5% 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 The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood is English, spoken by 43.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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 The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood in Alexandria, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (17.5%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (5.5%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 45.4% 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 The Grove at Huntley Meadows / Colchester Towne neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (53.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (30.5%) . 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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