E 171st St / Crotona Pl median real estate price is $998,382, which is more expensive than 75.1% of the neighborhoods in New York and 91.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in E 171st St / Crotona Pl is currently $2,191, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 65.5% of New York neighborhoods.
E 171st St / Crotona Pl is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bronx, New York.
E 171st St / Crotona Pl 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 small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in E 171st St / Crotona Pl are 5.7%, which is lower than one will find in 61.9% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in E 171st St / Crotona Pl 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.
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.
Modes of Transportation
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, if you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 26.3% of the E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 97.9% of America's neighborhoods.
Finally, a unique way of commuting is simply not to. And in the E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood, analysis shows that 29.8% of the residents work from home, avoiding a commute altogether. This may not seem like a large number, but it is a higher proportion of people working from home than is found in 96.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States. One thing NeighborhoodScout's research reveals is that the wealthier and/or more isolated the neighborhood, the greater the proportion of residents who choose to work from home.
Car Ownership
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 E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 60.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Length of Commute
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 15.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
Real Estate
The E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 44,210 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.2% of the nation's neighborhoods.
In addition, 91.2% of the real estate in the E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
Furthermore, the real estate in the E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 73.1% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 95.6% of American neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood has more Dominican and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 14.0% have Puerto Rican ancestry.
E 171st St / Crotona Pl is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood in Bronx are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.8% 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 E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood, 33.8% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (25.9%), and 10.3% in manufacturing and laborer 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 E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood is English, spoken by 59.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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 E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood in Bronx, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Dominican (31.9%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.1%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 28.7% 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 E 171st St / Crotona Pl neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (51.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (26.3%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (24.9%) and 10.1% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile for their daily commute. This neighborhood is distinguished by the high number of residents who take the train to work each day, which can be a very good way to get to work at a lower cost and with less pollution.
