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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Granite / Town Center median real estate price is $372,455, which is less expensive than 69.9% of New Hampshire neighborhoods and 48.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Granite / Town Center is currently $1,381, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 95.8% of New Hampshire neighborhoods.

Granite / Town Center is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Ossipee, New Hampshire.

Granite / Town Center real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Granite / Town Center neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Granite / Town Center. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 26.3%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 92.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (21.6%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

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.

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One of the notable things about Granite / Town Center is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Granite / Town Center neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.9%) living in the Granite / Town Center neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the Granite / Town Center neighborhood has more Canadian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 4.7% have French Canadian 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 Granite / Town Center neighborhood in Ossipee are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.4% 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 Granite / Town Center neighborhood, 40.9% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.3%), and 11.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Granite / Town Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the Granite / Town Center neighborhood in Ossipee, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report French roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.4%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (4.7%), among others.

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 Granite / Town Center neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (6.0%) . 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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