Queens Blvd / Hillyer St median real estate price is $1,227,546, which is more expensive than 81.4% of the neighborhoods in New York and 94.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Queens Blvd / Hillyer St is currently $3,938, based on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 76.0% of the neighborhoods in New York.
Queens Blvd / Hillyer St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Queens, New York.
Queens Blvd / Hillyer St real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) small apartment buildings and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St 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 8.0% in Queens Blvd / Hillyer St. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ analysis shows that this rate is lower than 46.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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¢¹½ÊÓƵ's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Three-deckers, duplexes, old Victorian homes cut up into apartments. Independent stores on the corner selling pizza. These are some of the hallmarks of neighborhoods with lots of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. The Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood really stands out in this regard, however, as it is dominated by such small apartment buildings more than nearly any other neighborhood in America. This is a stunning visual and lifestyle example of this type of neighborhood. In fact, 54.4% of the real estate here are small 2, 3, or 4 unit apartment buildings, which is a higher proportion than found in 98.8% of America's neighborhoods.
In addition, the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 45,118 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.2% of the nation's neighborhoods.
In the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood, 36.9% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are more people living in the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (58.8%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
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¢¹½ÊÓƵ's exclusive analysis shows that the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 26.5% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ found in 96.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ'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 Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.0% 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¢¹½ÊÓƵ found in 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood has more Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 72.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry.
Queens Blvd / Hillyer St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. What is interesting to note, is that the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (67.3%) than are found in 99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood in Queens are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.7% 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 50.7% 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 Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood, 41.2% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.0%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood is Chinese, spoken by 17.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region), Spanish and Vietnamese.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood in Queens, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (72.2%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 67.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Queens Blvd / Hillyer St neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (36.9%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (27.2%) and 14.6% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.
