Worthington real estate

From Zillow.com a description of the neighbors for a Central Ohio home.

Without visiting Zillow.com can you Match the "Groups" below to these communities?

Worthington

Dublin

Westerville

Lewis Center

Powell

Clintonville neighborhood 

All descriptions and names of "The Groups" ie "Rat Racers" and "Affluent Dinks" etc. are from Zillow.com

Central Ohio community A.  "Who Lives Here?" :

1. Power Singles — High-income urban singles.
2. Stable Nuclears  — Higher-income urban family.
3. Aspiring Urbanites — Urban singles with moderate income.

Central Ohio community B.  "Who Lives Here?" :

1. Power Singles — High-income urban singles.
2. Suburban Elite — Suburban super-rich couples with children.
3. Country Clubbers — Wealthy married couples with children.

Central Ohio community C.  "Who Lives Here?" :

1. Rat Racers — Dual-income suburban families.
2. Most Eligible — High-income singles living in the 'burbs.
3. Affluent DINKs - High-income, kid-free couples living in the suburbs.

Central Ohio community D.  "Who Lives Here?" :

1.  Urban Power Families — High-income couples with children.
2.  Power Singles — High-income urban singles.
3.  Suburban Elite — Suburban super-rich couples with children.

Central Ohio community E. "Who Lives Here?" :

1. Easy Street — High-income suburban couples without children.
2. Affluent DINKs — High-income, kid-free couples living in the suburbs.
3. Single in the Suburbs - Middle- to upper-income singles living in the suburbs.

Central Ohio community F. "Who Lives Here?" :

1. Urban Power Families — High-income couples with children.
2. Power Singles — High-income urban singles
3. Makin' It Singles — Upper-scale urban singles.

Can you tell Lewis Center from Powell from Worthington etc. by the Zillow "Group" descriptions, of "Who Lives Here?" The Zillow "Groups"  that confuse me are the ones where there are urban singles and suburban couples.... or vice verse (Community D for example and B...) I get diversity by age, marital status, income but wouldn't these communities (Clintonville, Dublin, Lewis Center, Powell, Westerville, Worthington)  be uniformly  or semi uniformly "urban" or "suburban"?  I don't want to say to much to give away which "Group" are the residents of which area.

Zillow.com says the info about "Groups"  comes US Census info.

"About These Groups

    The information in this section was derived from analysis of data (such as age, occupation, and income) from the 2000 U.S. Census. Using segmentation methods, our analysts created groupings based on the demographic and socioeconomic composition of each city and neighborhood. "

Real estate agents have for years tried to describe the location and not the people in the location.  Of course the census data is what describes the neighbors.  

Does the Internet change things?  Zillow is a real estate website that does estimates of homes values and advertises homes... and so much more...

The descriptions of "Who Lives Here?"  on Zillow reminds me of the emails about the Neighborhood Barbie's from a couple of years back. Lewis Center Barbie vs. Dublin Barbie vs. Westerville Barbie.  There were photos of Barbie Dolls with a car, a dog... a few props that represented the Barbie's life.

Here from a now defunct Columbus blog is a description of Lewis Center Barbie:

"This princess Barbie is sold only at The Polaris Fashion Center. She comes with an assortment of Coach Handbags, a Lexus SUV, a long-haired foreign dog named Honey and a "cookie cutter" $2,000,000.00 house. Available with or without tummy tuck and face lift. Workaholic Ken sold only in conjunction with "augmented" version."

ActiveRainers if your city is a featured City on R.com Neighborhoods (list below) did you look to see what R.com is telling the public about neighborhoods and pricing your your market?  Accurate?

Realtor.com Neighborhoods- Including a video about Neighborhoods.

I wondered why Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Pittsburgh were not on the list of  "Featured Cities" on Realtor.com but one area with less than 3000 listings is.  If I may borrow a line from Sesame Street "One of these things is not like the others."  

Featured Cities on R.com Neighborhoods

Atlanta 

Austin   

Baltimore 

Boston  

Charlotte 

Chicago  

Columbus   

Dallas   

Denver  

Houston 

Indianapolis 

Jacksonville   

Kansas City   

Las Vegas

Los Angeles  

Louisville  

Miami   

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

New York 

Orlando

Philadelphia

Phoenix

Raleigh

Sacramento

San Antonio

San Diego

San Francisco

San Jose 

Seattle

Tampa

Thousand Oaks

Tucson

Washington D.C.

Did you pick out which one of those things is not like the other.  Do you think they did that one first?  R.com Neighborhoods is an "ALPHA" does that mean R.com Neighborhoods is not as advanced as BETA? R.com is rougher than a BETA?  Not as ready?

Maybe Ceveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Pittsburgh are lucky they are not on the map.

Mainly R.com Neighborhoods is just real estate by ZIP code in Central Ohio. Buyers think I want to buy a home in Worthington or Dublin... or I want to buy a home in Worthington Schools or Dublin Schools.  Are they going to find a search that cobbles together distinctly different neighborhoods common only in ZIP code and find useful information?  I don't believe I have ever heard a buyer express I am looking for a home in 43085, or 43017.  ZIP codes in our area are bizarre, school district boundaries are irregular.  Giving consumers average pricing by ZIP code seems absurd to me. City services in Central Ohio are not uniform across a ZIP code.

Localism has a better list of Columbus neighborhoods than R.com does. R.com Neighborhoods are mostly cities, suburbs of Columbus like Westerville, Worthington, Dublin, Powell, Upper Arlington.  Grandview Heights made the list three times or maybe the third one is City of Columbus neighborhoods near Grandview Heights.  I know Trulia.com had a Grandview, Grandview Heights confusion going on early on too.  Not sure if Trulia ever  resolved their Grandview confusion.

Of course R.com hopes Realtors and ordinary people are going to build the neighborhoods for them. What is the incentive to do so?

I have found a bunch of bizarre things locally on R.com Neighborhoods. Parts of Powell in the wrong county.  Clintonville is in Summit County (the Akron area.) A "neighborhood" it is a city really in Hamilton County (Cinci area.)  Then there seem to be areas that were made up, bundled together and given names.  I wrote about R.com Neighborhoods on my other blog, ColumbusBestBlog.com a few times this week.

Where is Powell Ohio? R.com is way off on home prices, they are just using the 43065 ZIP code as a neighborhood.  The map shows Delaware County and Franklin County as Powell. 

What's Worthington? R.com has a lower than reality home price.  R.com is using the 43085 ZIP so saying the Worthington neighborhood includes some City of Columbus homes in the Worthington School District, but not all Worthington Ohio homes because many are in other ZIP codes.

Clintonville Neighborhood R.com identifies Clintonville as Summit County (Akron area) R.com used the Clintonville Beechwold areas plus all the surrounding smaller neighborhoods in the MLS area.  Or did they just use the Clintonville and Beechwold ZIP codes?

Clintonville Average Price Pricing is distorted.