Santa Susana Knolls median real estate price is $678,828, which is more expensive than 71.4% of the neighborhoods in California and 94.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Santa Susana Knolls is currently $2,002, based on NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 68.0% of the neighborhoods in California.
Santa Susana Knolls is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Simi Valley, California.
Santa Susana Knolls 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 Santa Susana Knolls 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.
In Santa Susana Knolls, the current vacancy rate is 2.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Santa Susana Knolls is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive exploration and analysis.
NOTABLE & UNIQUE: PEOPLE
If you come to know the people here, you will recognize that you’re in the company of one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. In fact, a mere 4.2% of America’s neighborhoods are wealthier than the Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood. Real estate here is exceedingly well-maintained, and similarly, tends to maintain its value over time. The cars driven are mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Lexus. If the public schools aren’t up to snuff, the residents of this neighborhood preferentially send their children to private preparatory schools. Vacation to Disney? Yes, but equally popular are summers in Europe. As one would expect in a considerably wealthy neighborhood such as this, Santa Susana Knolls also has one of the lowest ratings of child poverty in the nation.
In addition, if you’re looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout’s analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of California. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates.
NOTABLE & UNIQUE: DIVERSITY
Did you know that the Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood has more Iranian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It’s true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood’s residents have Iranian ancestry and 1.5% have Canadian ancestry.
Santa Susana Knolls is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
NOTABLE & UNIQUE: LENGTH OF COMMUTE
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 8.2% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America.
NOTABLE & UNIQUE: CAR OWNERSHIP
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout’s Analysis reveals that 31.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood in Simi Valley are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 99.9% of America’s neighborhoods.
THE NEIGHBORS: OCCUPATIONS
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood, 50.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.1%), and 11.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
THE NEIGHBORS: ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY
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 Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood in Simi Valley, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (8.4%), among others. In addition, 14.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Persian.
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 Santa Susana Knolls neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (24.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (8.2%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
