Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr median real estate price is $466,519, which is less expensive than 70.3% of New Jersey neighborhoods and 39.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr is currently $3,106, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 57.0% of New Jersey neighborhoods.
Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) small apartment buildings 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 Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 9.4% in Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Length of Commute
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 23.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
Modes of Transportation
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, in the Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood, 11.4% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Real Estate
Corner bodegas, stores on the first floor and apartments above, former grand Victorian residences converted into apartments, three-deckers built shoulder-to-shoulder, duplexes. Such building types define the real estate of neighborhoods dominated by small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. Many are in older core neighborhoods of Eastern and Midwestern cities, or historic town centers in their hinterlands. If you wax romantic about the look and feel of such neighborhoods, with fresh pizza, falafel and an independent florist at the corner, then you might find the Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood worth a close look. This neighborhood is an absolutely outstanding example of the dominance of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings compared to neighborhoods across the nation, as they make up a substantial portion of this neighborhood's real estate stock. In fact, no less than 42.6% of the real estate here is made up of such dwellings, which is higher than 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, the Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 33,069 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 97.3% of the nation's neighborhoods. Even if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.
People
One of the really interesting characteristics about the Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood is that, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research, it is an excellent choice in which to reside for college students. Due to its popularity among college students who already choose to live here, its walkability, and its above average safety from crime, the neighborhood is ideal for prospective or already-enrolled college students. Between semesters and during school breaks, you'll notice that the excitement here fluctuates with the college seasons. Despite the excitement however, parents of college-age children can rest easy knowing that this neighborhood has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 4.7% of college-friendly places to live in the state of New Jersey. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates.
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 Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood. More residents of the Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Diversity
Did you know that the Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood has more Dominican and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 1.1% have Croatian ancestry.
Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 19.4% 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 99.9% 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 Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood in Jersey City are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 39.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.6% 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 Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood, 32.2% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.0%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region), Spanish, Urdu (the national language of Pakistan) and African languages.
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 Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood in Jersey City, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.8%), along with some African ancestry residents (6.8%), among others. In addition, 38.4% 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 Lembeck Ave / Sullivan Dr neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (24.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (23.7%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (49.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (18.0%) and 11.4% of residents also take the train 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.
