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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Piedmont Gardens / Tice median real estate price is $287,724, which is more expensive than 28.4% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 38.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Piedmont Gardens / Tice is currently $1,847, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 81.4% of Florida neighborhoods.

Piedmont Gardens / Tice is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Fort Myers, Florida.

Piedmont Gardens / Tice real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Piedmont Gardens / Tice has a 11.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 69.2% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Fort Myers, the Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Piedmont Gardens / Tice (35.2%) than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood buck this trend. 27.1% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.1% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 66.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (43.9%) than are found in 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood in Fort Myers are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.3% 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 Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood, 43.1% 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 36.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (13.5%), and 7.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 66.9% of households. Some people also speak English (32.8%).

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 Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood in Fort Myers, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report English roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 43.9% 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 Piedmont Gardens / Tice neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (49.3%) 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 (35.2%) . 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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