Mott Haven Southeast median real estate price is $1,062,080, which is more expensive than 76.7% of the neighborhoods in New York and 91.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Mott Haven Southeast is currently $1,986, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 70.8% of New York neighborhoods.
Mott Haven Southeast is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bronx, New York.
Mott Haven Southeast 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 renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
In Mott Haven Southeast, the current vacancy rate is 2.2%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 85.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Mott Haven Southeast is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 Bronx, the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood about it; they already know. 30.9% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.6% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
In addition, the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Also of note, 63.5% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Modes of Transportation
In the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood, 45.0% 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 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Occupations
There are more people living in the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (52.9%) 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.
Real Estate
The Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 62,700 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.9% of the nation's neighborhoods.
In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 78.2% 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 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
Furthermore, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 87.2%, which is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
Car Ownership
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood buck this trend. 48.8% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 16.4% have Dominican ancestry.
Mott Haven Southeast is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood. More residents of the Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.0% 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.
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 Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood in Bronx are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 63.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.6% 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 Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood, 47.1% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.7%), and 9.1% in manufacturing and laborer 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 Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 51.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
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 Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood in Bronx, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (34.2%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.0%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 15.1% 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 Mott Haven Southeast neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (45.0%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (18.2%) and 13.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. This neighborhood is distinguished by the high number of residents who take the train to work each day, which can be a very good way to get to work at a lower cost and with less pollution.
