About Chicopee, MA (Sandy Hill) Real Estate Prices and Overview Sandy Hill median real estate price is $374,556, which is less expensive than 89.8% of Massachusetts neighborhoods and 50.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. The average rental price in Sandy Hill is currently $2,025, based on 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 86.6% of Massachusetts neighborhoods. Sandy Hill is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Sandy Hill real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Sandy Hill neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940. In Sandy Hill, the current vacancy rate is 1.5%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Sandy Hill is very tight compared to the demand for property here. Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics Notable & Unique: People In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Sandy Hill neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue. Notable & Unique: Diversity Did you know that the Sandy Hill neighborhood has more Polish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 16.1% have French Canadian ancestry. Sandy Hill is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America. 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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood. The neighbors in the Sandy Hill neighborhood in Chicopee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. 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 100.0% 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 Sandy Hill neighborhood, 29.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.6%), and 21.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. 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 Sandy Hill neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish. 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 鈥� some more unique than others 鈥� based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households 鈥� and importantly 鈥� 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 Sandy Hill neighborhood in Chicopee, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (30.4%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (23.6%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (22.1%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (16.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.2%), among others. 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 Sandy Hill neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.