Clay Ave / E 170th St median real estate price is $724,037, which is more expensive than 53.7% of the neighborhoods in New York and 80.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Clay Ave / E 170th St is currently $2,413, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 62.2% of New York neighborhoods.
Clay Ave / E 170th St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bronx, New York.
Clay Ave / E 170th St 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 Clay Ave / E 170th St 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 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Clay Ave / E 170th St are 3.3%, which is lower than one will find in 77.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Clay Ave / E 170th St 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 revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (32.3% ride the bus) than 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.
Also, if you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 24.7% of the Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 97.9% of America's neighborhoods.
What you'll find when you visit or move to this neighborhood is one of the most crowded neighborhoods in all of America. With an incredible 91,519 people per square mile, it is more densely populated than 99.5% of America's neighborhoods. Even if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood buck this trend. 48.8% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood about it; they already know. 22.2% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% 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.
Did you know that the Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 14.3% have Dominican ancestry.
Clay Ave / E 170th St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.6% 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 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood in Bronx are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.5% 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 Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood, 34.7% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 18.3% in manufacturing and laborer 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 Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood is English, spoken by 45.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, French and African languages.
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 Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood in Bronx, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (26.9%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Dominican roots (14.3%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (13.0%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (7.6%), among others. In addition, 33.6% 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 Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (40.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (32.3%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (24.7%) and 22.6% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile for their daily commute. The bus provides a valuable service in the Clay Ave / E 170th St neighborhood of Bronx by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.