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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Marble Hill median real estate price is $595,556, which is more expensive than 43.9% of the neighborhoods in New York and 73.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Marble Hill is currently $2,420, based on Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 62.1% of New York neighborhoods.

Marble Hill is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in New York, New York. This is a coastal neighborhood (i.e., is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet).

Marble Hill 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 Marble Hill neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.0% in Marble Hill. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ analysis shows that this rate is lower than 58.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

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.

Real Estate

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 73,519 people per square mile, it is more densely populated than 99.2% of America's neighborhoods. Being a walkable neighborhood can help increase property values for the simple reason that people enjoy it and value it. To put it plainly, despite our love affair with the automobile, American's enjoy taking to the streets, sidewalks, paths, and courtyards of a place to get a coffee, relax, and take in the sights and sounds. And, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive and first quantitative walkable score index, the Marble Hill neighborhood is one of the most walkable neighborhoods in America. Marble Hill is a neighborhood that is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Many times, such places have amenities that bring locals and visitors to the waterfront for recreational activities or to check out the scenery. In some densely populated areas that are less financially well-off, the neighborhood waterfront can be relatively industrial and less open to recreation. In addition to being coastal, Marble Hill is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.

In addition, the Marble Hill 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 92.9% 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.

Furthermore, the real estate in the Marble Hill 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, 91.7% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 98.4% of American neighborhoods.

Also of note, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Marble Hill neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ analysis, is 94.9%, which is higher than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.

Modes of Transportation

If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research revealed that 51.7% of the Marble Hill neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 99.6% of America's neighborhoods.

Also, our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (13.5% ride the bus) than 96.9% 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.

Finally, more people in Marble Hill choose to walk to work each day (13.7%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

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 Marble Hill neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 62.1% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis reveals that the Marble Hill neighborhood has more single mother households than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.

In addition, of note, 57.1% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis revealed, is that the Marble Hill neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 14.9% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, from major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Marble Hill neighborhood, they truly stand out. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 95.1% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Marble Hill neighborhood has more Dominican and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 44.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 14.1% have Puerto Rican ancestry.

Marble Hill is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Marble Hill neighborhood in New York are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 57.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.3% of U.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 Marble Hill neighborhood, 37.3% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.5%), and 14.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Marble Hill neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 55.7% of households. Some people also speak English (43.0%).

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 Marble Hill neighborhood in New York, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Dominican (44.5%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Jamaican ancestry (2.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 31.5% 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 Marble Hill neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (51.7%) 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 (13.7%) and 13.5% of residents also ride the bus 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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