Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd median real estate price is $532,685, which is less expensive than 86.5% of Hawaii neighborhoods and 37.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd is currently $2,306, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 84.6% of Hawaii neighborhoods.
Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Waipahu, Hawaii. This is a coastal neighborhood (i.e., is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet).
Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd 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 small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
In Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd, the current vacancy rate is 0.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 100.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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.
Real Estate
Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd 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.
In addition, 84.9% of the real estate in the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America. With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
Furthermore, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 84.8% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 97.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
Also of note, the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 88.4% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.
Modes of Transportation
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd (33.0%) than in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Occupations
There are more people living in the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (49.6%) 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.
Furthermore, the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.1% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
In addition, each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd 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 95.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
People
With more than 1.7% of residents living with a same sex partner, Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Migration / Stability
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (47.4%) than are found in 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood has more Asian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 29.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 2.3% have Portuguese ancestry.
Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.7% 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 99.5% 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 Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood in Waipahu are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.4% of U.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 Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood, 50.4% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.5%), and 6.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 43.6% of households. Some people also speak Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) (10.7%).
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 Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood in Waipahu, HI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (29.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.3%), along with some Portuguese ancestry residents (2.3%), among others. In addition, 47.4% 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 Farrington Hwy / Waikele Rd neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (35.1%) 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 (33.0%) and 28.0% of residents also ride the bus 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.
