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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Soma East median real estate price is $1,180,986, which is more expensive than 67.6% of the neighborhoods in California and 92.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Soma East is currently $5,443, based on Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 92.3% of the neighborhoods in California.

Soma East is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in San Francisco, California.

Soma East 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 townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Soma East neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Soma East. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 17.3%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 83.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (14.0%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Soma East neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, one of the most interesting things about the Soma East neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 60.5% of the households here made up of people living alone, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Also, the rate of college educated adults in the Soma East neighborhood is a unique characteristic of the neighborhood. 82.4% of adults here have received at least a 4-year bachelor's degree, compared to the average neighborhood in America, which has 35.0% of the adults with a bachelor's degree. The rate here is higher than Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Soma East neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Soma East neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 23.1% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 99.8% of all neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

The Soma East neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 98.3% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.

In addition, the real estate in the Soma East neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 95.8% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 99.2% of American neighborhoods.

Furthermore, if you like crowded places, then you will probably enjoy the the Soma East neighborhood. According to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive data analysis, this neighborhood is more densely populated than 96.9% of neighborhoods in the U.S., with 29,519 people per square mile living here.

Occupations

The Soma East neighborhood has a higher proportion of its residents employed as executives, managers and professionals than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In fact, 84.2% of the employed people here make a living as an executive, a manager, or other professional. With such a high concentration, this truly shapes the character of this neighborhood, and to a large degree defines what this neighborhood is about.

Modes of Transportation

In the Soma East neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 21.9% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 98.5% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

Also, in the Soma East neighborhood, 22.2% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis shows that the Soma East neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 40.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 98.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Soma East neighborhood has more Romanian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 13.8% have French ancestry.

Soma East is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Langs. of India at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Soma East neighborhood. In the Soma East neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 98.2% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

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 Soma East neighborhood in San Francisco are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 84.1% 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 Soma East neighborhood, 84.2% 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 7.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (5.0%), and 3.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

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 Soma East neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Langs. of India and French.

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 Soma East neighborhood in San Francisco, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.7%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Asian roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.1%), among others. In addition, 39.5% 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 Soma East neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (23.1%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (22.2%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (21.9%) and 17.3% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile for their daily commute. This neighborhood is distinguished by the high number of residents who take the train to work each day, which can be a very good way to get to work at a lower cost and with less pollution.


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