Anaheim Hills, California

Anaheim Hills median real estate price is $835,820, which is more expensive than 84.3% of the neighborhoods in California and 97.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Anaheim Hills is currently $2,421, based on NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 89.2% of the neighborhoods in California.

Anaheim Hills is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Anaheim, California.

Anaheim Hills real estate is primarily made up of large (four, five or more bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Anaheim Hills neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

In Anaheim Hills, the current vacancy rate is 3.5%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 85.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Anaheim Hills is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

NOTABLE & UNIQUE NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS

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: DIVERSITY

Did you know that the Anaheim Hills neighborhood has more Iranian and Armenian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It’s true! In fact, 11.2% of this neighborhood’s residents have Iranian ancestry and 6.6% have Armenian ancestry.

Anaheim Hills is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.2% 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 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

NOTABLE & UNIQUE: MODES OF TRANSPORTATION

Our research reveals that 94.7% of commuters who live in the Anaheim Hills neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

NOTABLE & UNIQUE: PEOPLE

The Anaheim Hills neighborhood is considered a solid choice for executive lifestyles. NeighborhoodScout’s analysis ranks it as better than 90.4% of California neighborhoods for executive living, based on the wealthy, educated professionals, executives, and managers who choose to reside here, the spacious homes that are prominent features of the real estate in the neighborhood, and the high real estate appreciation rates found here relative to other neighborhoods in the state. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates.

NOTABLE & UNIQUE: REAL ESTATE

In addition, one way that the Anaheim Hills neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 98.6% 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.

Furthermore, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Anaheim Hills stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you’ll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 92.1% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

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 Anaheim Hills neighborhood in Anaheim 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 89.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.7% 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 69.9% 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 Anaheim Hills neighborhood, 55.4% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.5%), and 5.9% 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 Anaheim Hills neighborhood in Anaheim, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.6%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irania roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.2%), along with some Armenian ancestry residents (6.6%), among others. In addition, 28.3% 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 Anaheim Hills neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Persian, Spanish, South Asian languages and Gujarati (native to the Indian state of Gujarat).

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 Anaheim Hills neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (94.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.