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Real Estate Prices & Overview

City Center / Leclaire median real estate price is $293,347, which is more expensive than 55.2% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 40.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in City Center / Leclaire is currently $1,648, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 59.3% of Illinois neighborhoods.

City Center / Leclaire is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Edwardsville, Illinois.

City Center / Leclaire 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 occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the City Center / Leclaire 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.

In City Center / Leclaire, the current vacancy rate is 2.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 80.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in City Center / Leclaire is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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 Edwardsville, the City Center / Leclaire neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of particular note, 3.5% of the people in the City Center / Leclaire neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Diversity

Did you know that the City Center / Leclaire neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 2.6% have Swiss ancestry.

Migration / Stability

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. In the City Center / Leclaire neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 96.2% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

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 City Center / Leclaire neighborhood in Edwardsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.9% 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 68.4% of America'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 City Center / Leclaire neighborhood, 47.4% 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 36.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (8.4%), and 7.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the City Center / Leclaire neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the City Center / Leclaire neighborhood in Edwardsville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.

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 City Center / Leclaire neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.9%) 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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