SW Louisville (Valley Station, Auburn, Waverly: crime, homes, neighborhood)

[censusdata]

Here are a few photos from the St Anthony Rd area

[JefferyT]

I particularly like this one as it catches the hill country aspect of this part of the county.

[censusdata]

Originally Posted by JefferyT

I particularly like this one as it catches the hill country aspect of this part of the county.

If someone would cut all those scrawny trees down that block the view from both lookouts I could have had many more pictures like that one. Has it is you have to look for the handful of angles without any trees blocking the view.

Apparently Mayor Abramson is too dumb/cheap to find someone who owns a chainsaw

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by censusdata

Here are a few photos from the St Anthony Rd area

Is that St Anthony church road aka Hot rod haven?

[Windwalker]

I'm grateful for this thread, since we're coming to Louisville this weekend for the sole purpose of buying a house. I fell in love with Iroquois Park, but thanks to . . . census? . . . I looked on the crime map site and see that murders are all around that area. The violence seems to be moving south from the west end.

Is this an accurate assumption, though? I look at all my x's on the map where murders have occurred (not including the strange domestic ones), and then I go to Iroquois Park neighborhoods and feel completely safe and wonderfully at home.

Will these areas be encroached by drug/violent elements or do you think the property value will hold or even rise?

[censusdata]

I was just looking through all the homicides in that area from 03-08. Every one was in an area of apartments at St Andrews Church RD and St Anthony Church Rd.

All of the developments in the Parkwood, Prairie Village, and Waverly Hills areas are highly seperated from these areas I'd image that will always hold their value and be nice places to live. They remind me of Audubon Park or Anchorage, places which have never declined.

I would avoid areas west of Dixie Highway or north of Iroquois Park & east of Manslick Rd because the housing stock tends to be small and cheaply built and crime is already increasing.

[tomocox]

Do not, I repeat do not buy a house in 40214-15-16 without knowing exactly what you are doing. There are some fabulous areas, but there are some equally bad parts. If your children are school agers, you may get lucky and get a great school, but don't again I repeat, don't buy anywhere but Anchorage in Jefferson County without having a reserve account for private school.

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by censusdata

I was just looking through all the homicides in that area from 03-08. Every one was in an area of apartments at St Andrews Church RD and St Anthony Church Rd.

All of the developments in the Parkwood, Prairie Village, and Waverly Hills areas are highly seperated from these areas I'd image that will always hold their value and be nice places to live. They remind me of Audubon Park or Anchorage, places which have never declined.

I would avoid areas west of Dixie Highway or north of Iroquois Park & east of Manslick Rd because the housing stock tends to be small and cheaply built and crime is already increasing.

Those apartments are very low income. I know cause I used to live in them years ago and they are not the best around tha's for sure.

[Windwalker]

Thanks, census. As always, you're a wealth a great info.

I don't have to worry about children in school, though for resale value (among other things, of course), schools are important. And don't worry, tom. I'm in good hands getting great info.

You folks are the best!

[censusdata]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

Those apartments are very low income. I know cause I used to live in them years ago and they are not the best around tha's for sure.

The ones on top of the hill (St Anthony Gardens) rented for over $550 (I checked online), but the other ones did look really cheap.

2 murders in one small area per year is pretty high, especially considering only several hundred people live there. Old Louisville south of Magnolia Street has only had 2 in the past 5 years w/ a population of over 6,000; and most people consider it a high crime area.