Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave median real estate price is $128,475, which is less expensive than 82.9% of Ohio neighborhoods and 91.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave is currently $1,301, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 65.2% of Ohio neighborhoods.
Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Youngstown, Ohio.
Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave, the current vacancy rate is 2.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 81.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 Youngstown, the Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Astoundingly, the Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Youngstown neighborhood.
In addition, the Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (64.6%) than found in 97.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 6.6% have Slovak ancestry.
Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 23.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% 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 Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood in Youngstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 64.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.8% 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 Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood, 32.3% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.5%), and 11.7% 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 Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish, Arabic and Spanish.
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 Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood in Youngstown, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (7.0%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.6%), among others.
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 Afton Ave / Meadowbrook Ave neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.