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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center median real estate price is $601,281, which is more expensive than 92.0% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania and 77.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center is currently $1,871, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 61.8% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania.

Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Broomall, Pennsylvania.

Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

In Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center, the current vacancy rate is 1.8%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center 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 Broomall, the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

In addition, the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates and highly educated executives.

Diversity

Did you know that the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood has more Greek and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 27.7% have Irish ancestry.

Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood in Broomall are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 90.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood, 57.5% 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 17.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.5%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.7% of households. Some people also speak Vietnamese (4.4%).

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 Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood in Broomall, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (27.7%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (20.9%), and residents who report German roots (16.1%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (15.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.2%), among others. In addition, 12.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 Brookthorpe Hills / Town Center neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (67.8%) 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 (10.8%) . 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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