Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd median real estate price is $217,138, which is less expensive than 69.6% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods and 77.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd is currently $1,458, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 68.0% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.
Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd 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.
Real estate vacancies in Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd are 5.0%, which is lower than one will find in 65.5% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Pittview Ave / Mount Troy 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.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd neighborhood has more Irish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 32.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 48.6% have German ancestry.
Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% 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 Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd neighborhood in Pittsburgh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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 Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd neighborhood, 54.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (9.8%), and 7.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (8.0%).
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 Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (32.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.
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 Pittview Ave / Mount Troy Rd neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (64.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (53.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (9.1%) and 7.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.