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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance median real estate price is $1,055,614, which is more expensive than 52.0% of the neighborhoods in Hawaii and 91.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance is currently $1,943, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 94.6% of Hawaii neighborhoods.

Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Waipahu, Hawaii.

Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Real estate vacancies in Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance are 5.3%, which is lower than one will find in 64.5% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood has more Asian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 67.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 2.5% have Portuguese ancestry.

Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 16.1% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood in Waipahu are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 88.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% of U.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 Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood, 27.3% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.9%), and 22.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

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 Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and Japanese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood in Waipahu, HI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (67.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (2.8%), and residents who report Portuguese roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 29.8% 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 Waipahu Gardens / Renaissance neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (67.4%) 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 (20.9%) . 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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