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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Kenwood / Potwin median real estate price is $182,873, which is less expensive than 61.9% of Kansas neighborhoods and 81.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Kenwood / Potwin is currently $1,015, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 93.4% of Kansas neighborhoods.

Kenwood / Potwin is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Topeka, Kansas.

Kenwood / Potwin 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 Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

In Kenwood / Potwin, the current vacancy rate is 2.7%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 82.1% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Kenwood / Potwin 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 Topeka, the Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

The Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Real Estate

If you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 59.6% of the residential real estate in the Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.

Diversity

Did you know that the Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 30.1% have English ancestry.

Kenwood / Potwin is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% 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 Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood in Topeka are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.2% 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 Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood, 45.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.7%), and 14.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).

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 Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood in Topeka, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (30.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (30.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

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 Kenwood / Potwin neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.8%) 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 (5.9%) . 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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