Median real estate price in the City Center of Arcadia is $239,311, which is less expensive than 83.2% of Florida neighborhoods and 71.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Arcadia City Center is currently $1,388, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 95.5% of Florida neighborhoods.
Arcadia City Center is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Arcadia, Florida.
Real estate in the City Center of Arcadia, FL 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 City Center neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 9.0% in Arcadia City Center. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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 Arcadia, the City Center neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In the Arcadia City Center neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 42.1% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, if your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 2.8% of residents in the Arcadia City Center neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 95.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
Of particular note, 3.1% of the people in the City Center neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
In addition, the Arcadia City Center neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (56.2%) than found in 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
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 City Center neighborhood in Arcadia are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 56.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.9% 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 Arcadia City Center neighborhood, 33.3% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (32.0%), and 2.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the Arcadia City Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.7%).
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 City Center neighborhood in Arcadia, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (32.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report English roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.6%), among others. In addition, 18.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Arcadia City Center neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (49.9%) 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 (42.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.