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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Moulton Heights / Oakworth median real estate price is $162,270, which is more expensive than 35.1% of the neighborhoods in Alabama and 15.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Moulton Heights / Oakworth is currently $1,308, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 64.5% of Alabama neighborhoods.

Moulton Heights / Oakworth is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Decatur, Alabama.

Moulton Heights / Oakworth real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes 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 Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 7.9% in Moulton Heights / Oakworth. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 48.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

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.

Modes of Transportation

In the Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 24.0% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood than in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

People

The Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Diversity

Did you know that the Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood has more Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood in Decatur are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.5% 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 Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood, 42.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.1%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.4%).

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 Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood in Decatur, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.5%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.0%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 16.2% 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 Moulton Heights / Oakworth neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (71.1%) 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 (24.0%) . 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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