Williams Ranch West median real estate price is $774,831, which is more expensive than 40.1% of the neighborhoods in California and 82.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Williams Ranch West is currently $3,798, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 66.4% of the neighborhoods in California.
Williams Ranch West is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Salinas, California.
Williams Ranch West real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Williams Ranch West 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.
Real estate vacancies in Williams Ranch West are 4.2%, which is lower than one will find in 70.6% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Williams Ranch West 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.
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 NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Williams Ranch West neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Williams Ranch West neighborhood about it; they already know. 25.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
In addition, the Williams Ranch West neighborhood is unique for having just 7.1% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of America's neighborhoods.
In the Williams Ranch West neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 30.0% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you like crowded places, then you will probably enjoy the the Williams Ranch West neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive data analysis, this neighborhood is more densely populated than 96.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S., with 25,558 people per square mile living here.
Did you know that the Williams Ranch West neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 94.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Williams Ranch West is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 86.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Williams Ranch West neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (43.7%) than are found in 95.5% 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 Williams Ranch West neighborhood in Salinas are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.2% 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 Williams Ranch West neighborhood, 29.1% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 16.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Williams Ranch West neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 86.4% of households. Some people also speak English (12.1%).
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 Williams Ranch West neighborhood in Salinas, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (94.4%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (1.5%). In addition, 43.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Williams Ranch West neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (63.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (66.5%) 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 (30.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.