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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa median real estate price is $602,218, which is more expensive than 78.0% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 77.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa is currently $4,305, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 92.6% of the neighborhoods in Florida.

Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Boca Raton, Florida.

Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 17.0%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 82.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

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.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

Real Estate

Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 87.4% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

In addition, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 25.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

Diversity

Did you know that the Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood has more Russian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Russian ancestry and 12.2% have South American ancestry.

Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% 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 Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood in Boca Raton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood, 63.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (8.8%), and 3.1% 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 Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish, French and Langs. of India.

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 Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood in Boca Raton, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (15.3%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Russian ancestry (7.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.7%), among others. In addition, 28.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Plum At Boca Pointe / Villa Sonrisa neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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