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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Central Avenue / Covenant Drive median real estate price is $326,491, which is more expensive than 35.0% of the neighborhoods in Virginia and 44.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Central Avenue / Covenant Drive is currently $1,456, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 83.0% of Virginia neighborhoods.

Central Avenue / Covenant Drive is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Central Avenue / Covenant Drive real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) townhomes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Real estate vacancies in Central Avenue / Covenant Drive are 4.1%, which is lower than one will find in 73.0% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Central Avenue / Covenant Drive 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

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.

People

An extraordinary 15.6% of the residents of the Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.

In addition, of particular note, 2.3% of the people in the Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Central Avenue / Covenant Drive 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, 29.2% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

Diversity

Did you know that the Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood has more Arab and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry and 3.7% have Dutch ancestry.

Central Avenue / Covenant Drive is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% 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 99.2% 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 Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood in Harrisonburg 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 19.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.8% 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 Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood, 33.8% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.4%), and 13.5% 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 Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood in Harrisonburg, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Arab (13.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.6%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.8%), among others. In addition, 27.7% 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 Central Avenue / Covenant Drive neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.5%) 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 (18.7%) . 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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