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Real Estate Prices & Overview

S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St median real estate price is $625,440, which is less expensive than 71.6% of California neighborhoods and 23.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St is currently $2,669, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 69.1% of California neighborhoods.

S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Compton, California.

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

In S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St, the current vacancy rate is 2.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 81.1% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St 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.

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 S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 52.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 53.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.4% of American neighborhoods.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.5% of the adult residents in the S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.8% of the neighborhoods in CA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

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 S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood. More residents of the S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while. What is interesting to note, is that the S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (44.4%) than are found in 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 79.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 86.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.2% 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 S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood in Compton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.0% 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 S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood, 53.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (12.7%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 86.2% of households. Some people also speak English (13.4%).

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 S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood in Compton, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (79.6%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (1.8%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (1.1%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 44.4% 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 S Gibson Ave / E San Vincente St neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (14.1%) . 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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