W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr median real estate price is $195,640, which is less expensive than 76.6% of North Carolina neighborhoods and 79.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr is currently $1,374, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 80.3% of North Carolina neighborhoods.
W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in High Point, North Carolina.
W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr 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 renter occupied. Many of the residences in the W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr has a 14.7% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 77.3% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr 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 58.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.8% of American neighborhoods.
The W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood is unique for having just 5.1% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of America's neighborhoods.
In addition, single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood about it; they already know. 19.8% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% 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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr (23.8%) than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 22.1% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood in High Point are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.3% 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 W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood, 58.5% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (8.2%), and 6.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood is English, spoken by 56.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (38.6%).
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 W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood in High Point, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.0%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 17.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 W Fairfield Rd / Surrett Dr neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (58.0%) 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 (23.8%) and 8.0% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.