The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace median real estate price is $750,327, which is more expensive than 39.9% of the neighborhoods in California and 78.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace is currently $3,027, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 58.2% of California neighborhoods.
The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Santa Rosa, California.
The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Real estate vacancies in The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace are 3.3%, which is lower than one will find in 77.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace 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.
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 Santa Rosa, the The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace 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 The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 89.3% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood has more Danish and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 0.8% have Yugoslav ancestry.
The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% 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 The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood in Santa Rosa are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.7% 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.
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 The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood, 40.2% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.6%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.5%).
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 The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood in Santa Rosa, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report English roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (12.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.4%), among others.
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 The Orchard / Pinercrest Terrace neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (66.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (18.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.