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4210 - 4214 S 3rd Street
Louisville, KY

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Neighborhood Info

History: Wilder Park is a four miles south of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The area was originally the site of Greenland race course, built in 1866, a sister track of Churchill Downs. Greenland track closed in 1888 and was subsequently used as a park. Churchill Downs is a stones-throw awy.
 
Facebook: Wilder Park maintains an acive Facebook page.
 
Community Center: Wilder Park maintains a community center which can be rented at a reasonable price by the residents of Wilder Park. It's also used for community events.
 
Newsletter: From time to time a newsletter is published. The latest one was published in October 2019. 
 
Real Estate
Wilder Park median real estate price is $119,749, which is more expensive than 43.8% of the neighborhoods in Kentucky and 22.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Rents here are currently lower in price than around 50% of Kentucky neighborhoods.

Wilder Park real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Many of the residences in the Wilder Park neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940. The 3 houses we are currently selling were built in the early 1900s.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
People
One of the most interesting things about the Wilder Park neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 47.5% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the Wilder Park neighborhood stands out within Kentucky for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 8.7% of college-friendly places to live in KY.

Notable & Unique: Diversity
Did you know that the Wilder Park neighborhood has more Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry.


The Neighbors
The Neighbors: Income
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Wilder Park neighborhood in Louisville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.7% 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 Wilder Park neighborhood, 35.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.6%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 Wilder Park neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

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 Wilder Park neighborhood in Louisville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (5.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.9%), among others. In addition, 11.5% 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 Wilder Park neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work. 
 

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(502) 4392826
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4210 - 4214 S 3rd Street
Louisville, KY

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Multi Family for sale in Louisville, KY

Handyman special! 3 houses on 1/2 acre in Louisville's resurgent Wilder Park neighborhood. All houses need rehab. Being sold together but may consider individual sales. Currently configured as multifamily (triplex, duplex) but because they are zoned R6 they could be restructured to suite your purpose. Great for flip, rent or bnb: airport (4 min), Churchill Downs (3 min) and downtown (10 min). Opposite Kroger, near other retail, 264 and 65. Commercial potential

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