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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace median real estate price is $820,439, which is more expensive than 45.1% of the neighborhoods in California and 84.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace is currently $4,649, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 83.5% of the neighborhoods in California.

Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Watsonville, California.

Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace 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.

In Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace, the current vacancy rate is 1.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.1% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace 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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

People

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood about it; they already know. 17.8% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood has more Portuguese and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 79.1% have Mexican ancestry.

Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 67.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood in Watsonville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.2% 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 Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood, 29.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.9%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 67.6% of households. Some people also speak English (30.6%).

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 Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood in Watsonville, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (79.1%). There are also a number of people of Portuguese ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 31.7% 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 Madonna Vista / Monterey Terrace neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (17.1%) . 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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