West Palm Beach, FL (Village Blvd / 50th Way)
Village Blvd / 50th Way
About West Palm Beach, FL (Village Blvd / 50th Way)
Village Blvd / 50th Way median real estate price is $384,055, which is more expensive than 77.2% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 73.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Village Blvd / 50th Way is currently $2,121, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 81.6% of the neighborhoods in Florida.
Village Blvd / 50th Way is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Village Blvd / 50th Way 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 single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Village Blvd / 50th Way has a 13.2% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 68.9% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
Notable & Unique: Occupations
There are more people living in the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (57.0%) 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.
If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood. A whopping 51.7% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 95.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 10.9% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.0% of the neighborhoods in FL. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood has more Jamaican and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 4.3% have Haitian ancestry.
Village Blvd / 50th Way is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighbors in the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood in West Palm Beach are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.5% 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 86.1% of America's neighborhoods.
In the Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood, 43.0% 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 38.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (9.7%), and 8.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood is English, spoken by 65.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood in West Palm Beach, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (10.3%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.8%), along with some South American ancestry residents (5.7%), among others. In addition, 37.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Village Blvd / 50th Way neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
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