City Center / Sams Valley median real estate price is $573,258, which is more expensive than 59.0% of the neighborhoods in Oregon and 71.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in City Center / Sams Valley is currently $1,814, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 60.5% of Oregon neighborhoods.
City Center / Sams Valley is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Gold Hill, Oregon.
City Center / Sams Valley real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the City Center / Sams Valley 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 City Center / Sams Valley are 4.3%, which is lower than one will find in 71.7% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in City Center / Sams Valley 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.
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 Gold Hill, the City Center / Sams Valley neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the City Center / Sams Valley neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
City Center / Sams Valley is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.3% 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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 / Sams Valley neighborhood in Gold Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.3% 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 City Center / Sams Valley neighborhood, 29.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.2%), and 19.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the City Center / Sams Valley neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (9.3%).
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 / Sams Valley neighborhood in Gold Hill, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (8.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 City Center / Sams Valley neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.