The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. With 30.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.5% of U.S.
NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.5% of U.S. The neighbors in the Dock Junction neighborhood in Erie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 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. 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. There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 47.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies. Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.4% in Dock Junction. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Many of the residences in the Dock Junction neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 19. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Rents here are currently lower in price than 86.0% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.ĭock Junction is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Erie, Pennsylvania.ĭock Junction real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. The average rental price in Dock Junction is currently $1,166, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. If there was not a name available, we named the census tract by the largest street intersection in the census tract (e.g., Worcester, MA (Lincoln St/Plantation St)ĭock Junction median real estate price is $105,575, which is less expensive than 88.9% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods and 92.0% of all U.S. Then we named each census tract to the local colloquially recognized neighborhood name for that spot (e.g., Boston, MA (Dorchester). Since census tracts are subdivisions of a county, we did a spatial overlay of the census tracts onto city and town boundaries using a geographic information system to properly assign each census tract to its appropriate city or town. In urban areas, they are small, and in rural areas they can cover an entire small town or even a few small towns in very rural areas. Because census tracts are based on population, they vary in size depending on the density of settlement. This is the most fine-grained area for which detailed information is made available from the government, to protect the individual privacy of each of us. Census tracts usually have 4,000 persons, but can range between 1,500 and 8,000 persons. Census Bureau in conjunction with local authorities all across the country to define real neighborhoods that are bounded to contain areas with homogeneous population characteristics (including economic status, lifestyle, and living conditions). NeighborhoodScout® uses the official government designation for neighborhoods - the census tract.Ĭensus tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county that are defined by the U.S.
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