Hillcrest Heights median real estate price is $466,255, which is more expensive than 50.4% of the neighborhoods in Maryland and 61.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Hillcrest Heights is currently $2,115, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 74.5% of Maryland neighborhoods.
Hillcrest Heights is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Temple Hills, Maryland.
Hillcrest Heights 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 single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Hillcrest Heights neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Hillcrest Heights, the current vacancy rate is 0.5%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 92.8% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Hillcrest Heights is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 Temple Hills, the Hillcrest Heights neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The Hillcrest Heights neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the Hillcrest Heights neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 9.4% have African ancestry.
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 Hillcrest Heights neighborhood in Temple Hills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.6% 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 Hillcrest Heights neighborhood, 36.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.8%), and 17.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the Hillcrest Heights neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (14.0%).
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 Hillcrest Heights neighborhood in Temple Hills, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (20.2%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Arab ancestry (3.9%), along with some Portuguese ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 Hillcrest Heights neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (67.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.