Lake Worth Corridor East median real estate price is $399,856, which is more expensive than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 55.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Lake Worth Corridor East is currently $3,042, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 65.7% of the neighborhoods in Florida.
Lake Worth Corridor East is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.
Lake Worth Corridor East 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 Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Real estate vacancies in Lake Worth Corridor East are 4.2%, which is lower than one will find in 72.1% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Lake Worth Corridor East is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Lake Worth Corridor East (34.0%) than in 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood about it; they already know. 19.6% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% 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.
89.4% of the real estate in the Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
Did you know that the Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood has more Haitian and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 3.4% have Cuban ancestry.
Lake Worth Corridor East is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 20.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (53.1%) than are found in 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood in Lake Worth Beach are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.1% 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 Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood, 37.3% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 35.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.5%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 56.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and English.
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 Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood in Lake Worth Beach, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (19.3%), and residents who report South American roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Cuban ancestry (3.4%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (3.3%), among others. In addition, 53.1% 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 Lake Worth Corridor East neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (53.7%) 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 (34.0%) and 8.0% of residents also ride the bus 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.