REAL ESTATE PRICES AND OVERVIEW

Sweetwater / North Oak Hill median real estate price is $99,642, which is less expensive than 87.8% of Florida neighborhoods and 80.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Sweetwater / North Oak Hill is currently $1,019, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 70.5% of Florida neighborhoods.

Sweetwater / North Oak Hill is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Jacksonville, Florida.

Sweetwater / North Oak Hill real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 10.6% in Sweetwater / North Oak Hill. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 43.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

NOTABLE & UNIQUE NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS

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 Jacksonville, the Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

NOTABLE & UNIQUE: DIVERSITY

Did you know that the Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood has more African and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.4% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry and 7.4% have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

Sweetwater / North Oak Hill is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

NOTABLE & UNIQUE: PEOPLE

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood about it; they already know. 19.4% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% 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.

THE NEIGHBORS

THE NEIGHBORS: INCOME

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 Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood in Jacksonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

THE NEIGHBORS: OCCUPATIONS

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 Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood, 31.9% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.6%), and 21.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

THE NEIGHBORS: ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY

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 Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood in Jacksonville, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as African (7.4%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (5.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.

THE NEIGHBORS: 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 Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and Spanish.

GETTING TO WORK

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 Sweetwater / North Oak Hill neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.