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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd median real estate price is $421,919, which is more expensive than 64.5% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina and 54.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd is currently $1,674, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 57.0% of North Carolina neighborhoods.

Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Greenville, North Carolina.

Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd 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 townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd 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 Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd are 5.1%, which is lower than one will find in 65.7% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd 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

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 Greenville, the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

An extraordinary 21.2% of the residents of the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd 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.

Occupations

There are more people living in the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (58.1%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Real Estate

87.3% of the real estate in the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.

In addition, the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 82.7% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.

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 Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood. In the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 98.6% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

Diversity

Did you know that the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood has more South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.4% of this neighborhood's residents have South American ancestry.

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 Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood in Greenville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood, 41.9% 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 39.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (9.9%), and 8.8% 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 Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood in Greenville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.6%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Asian roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 10.5% 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 Wimbledon Dr / E Fire Tower Rd neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (88.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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