Paalaakai / Beach Parks median real estate price is $1,267,910, which is more expensive than 67.6% of the neighborhoods in Hawaii and 93.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Paalaakai / Beach Parks is currently $2,772, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 71.6% of Hawaii neighborhoods.
Paalaakai / Beach Parks is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Haleiwa, Hawaii. This is a coastal neighborhood (i.e., is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet).
Paalaakai / Beach Parks real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two 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 Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Paalaakai / Beach Parks has a 10.2% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 64.0% of American neighborhoods). A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (8.4%), which can occur in some markets dominated by colleges or vacation homes. If you live here year round, you will find many of the homes or apartments are empty for all or a portion of the year.
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 Haleiwa, the Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Paalaakai / Beach Parks is a neighborhood that is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Many times, such places have amenities that bring locals and visitors to the waterfront for recreational activities or to check out the scenery. In some densely populated areas that are less financially well-off, the neighborhood waterfront can be relatively industrial and less open to recreation. In addition to being coastal, Paalaakai / Beach Parks is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
There are more people living in the Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (57.7%) 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.
In the Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 11.7% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 95.9% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
Did you know that the Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood has more Asian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 32.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 2.1% have Portuguese ancestry.
Paalaakai / Beach Parks is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood in Haleiwa are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.7% 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 64.9% 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 Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood, 42.3% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.9%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.4% of households. Some people also speak Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) (8.2%).
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 Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood in Haleiwa, HI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (32.9%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report German roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 22.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Paalaakai / Beach Parks neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (65.6%) 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 (13.3%) and 11.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.