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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Brighton Heights Southeast median real estate price is $153,067, which is less expensive than 82.8% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods and 87.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Brighton Heights Southeast is currently $1,298, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 77.9% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.

Brighton Heights Southeast is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Brighton Heights Southeast real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 9.6% in Brighton Heights Southeast. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 40.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (44.7% ride the bus) than 99.9% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.

Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 98.8% of all American neighborhoods.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 23.4% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 40.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood has more Croatian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 3.7% have Hungarian ancestry.

Brighton Heights Southeast is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood. In the Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 95.7% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

The Neighbors

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 Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood in Pittsburgh are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.2% 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 Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood, 46.3% 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 37.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (9.1%), and 6.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (9.8%).

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 Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (5.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (44.7%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (31.8%) and 9.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. The bus provides a valuable service in the Brighton Heights Southeast neighborhood of Pittsburgh by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.


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