Hastings Southwest median real estate price is $163,809, which is less expensive than 81.3% of Nebraska neighborhoods and 86.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Hastings Southwest is currently $1,401, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 44.0% of Nebraska neighborhoods.
Hastings Southwest is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Hastings, Nebraska.
Hastings Southwest 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 Hastings Southwest neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Hastings Southwest has a 12.3% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 71.7% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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 Hastings, the Hastings Southwest neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Hastings Southwest neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the Hastings Southwest neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 72.0% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the Hastings Southwest neighborhood stands out by having 90.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 19.9% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Hastings Southwest neighborhood has more Cuban and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry and 3.9% have Dutch ancestry.
Hastings Southwest is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Hastings Southwest neighborhood in Hastings are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.8% 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 50.5% of America'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 Hastings Southwest neighborhood, 33.1% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Hastings Southwest neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the Hastings Southwest neighborhood in Hastings, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 Hastings Southwest neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (72.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.6%) 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 (5.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.