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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 median real estate price is $637,210, which is more expensive than 72.6% of the neighborhoods in Virginia and 75.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 is currently $2,504, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 40.9% of Virginia neighborhoods.

Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 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 townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.1% in Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 59.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Woodbridge, the Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

The Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Furthermore, there are more people living in the Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (60.8%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Real Estate

Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood's real estate landscape than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 66.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.

Modes of Transportation

Our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (10.6% ride the bus) than 95.1% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.6% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood in Woodbridge are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.6% of America'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 Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood, 39.2% 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 34.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 15.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

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 Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include African languages, Spanish, Arabic and Urdu (the national language of Pakistan).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood in Woodbridge, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (33.7%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report German roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 38.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Brightwood Forest / Markhams Grant S3 neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (73.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (10.6%) and 7.4% 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.


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