Median real estate price in the City Center of Moorpark is $822,531, which is more expensive than 80.0% of the neighborhoods in California and 96.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Moorpark City Center is currently $2,525, based on Neighborhood Scout’s exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in California.
Moorpark City Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Moorpark, California.
Real estate in the City Center of Moorpark, CA is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the City Center neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Moorpark City Center, the current vacancy rate is 4.1%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 81.9% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Moorpark City Center 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
Wealth makes most things in life easier, and a few things harder. If you are wealthy and enjoy keeping up with the Jones’, this neighborhood will interest you. In fact, according to Neighborhood Scout’s research, the Moorpark City Center neighborhood is wealthier than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Residents here are truly in a unique situation even when compared to other Americans, based on the sheer amount of wealth concentrated here. Even in times of economic downturn, residents of this neighborhood, as a group, suffered less and recovered more quickly. This is indeed a stand-out characteristic of this neighborhood.
In addition, according to Neighborhood Scout’s exclusive analysis, Moorpark City Center is among the best neighborhoods for families in California. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 96.1% of neighborhoods in the entire state of California. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a “Leave It to Beaver” episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the Moorpark City Center neighborhood. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates and highly educated executives.
NOTABLE & UNIQUE: DIVERSITY
Did you know that the Moorpark City Center neighborhood has more Russian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It’s true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood’s residents have Russian ancestry.
Moorpark City Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Gujarati, which is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
NOTABLE & UNIQUE: REAL ESTATE
In addition, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Moorpark City Center neighborhood. A whopping 67.2% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
Furthermore, one way that the Moorpark City Center neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you’ll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.
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 City Center neighborhood in Moorpark are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. Neighborhood Scout’s exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.6% 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 90.7% of America’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 Moorpark City Center neighborhood, 52.7% 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 20.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.7%), and 11.3% 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 City Center neighborhood in Moorpark, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report German roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (12.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (11.3%), among others. In addition, 21.5% 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 Moorpark City Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Vietnamese and South Asian languages.
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 Moorpark City Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
