Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course median real estate price is $783,041, which is more expensive than 94.7% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 83.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course is currently $3,164, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 94.4% of the neighborhoods in Texas.
Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in The Colony, Texas.
Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course has a 10.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 65.3% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in The Colony, the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real estate in the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood is almost exclusively owner-occupied. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher rate of owner-occupied housing than is found in 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. If you are seeking to rent, this neighborhood may not have many options, but high rates of ownership often indicate stability in a neighborhood.
In addition, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood. A whopping 96.8% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new. In fact, the concentration of newer homes here is so great that they completely dominate the landscape. In most neighborhoods, there is a mixture of ages of residential real estate, but here it is almost completely built during one time frame: 2000 through today.
Furthermore, some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 98.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Also of note, one way that the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 97.4% 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.
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course is among the best neighborhoods for families in Texas. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 99.4% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Texas. 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 Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives and urban sophisticates.
In addition, if you come to know the people here, you will recognize that you're in the company of one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. In fact, a mere 1.4% of America's neighborhoods are wealthier than the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood. Real estate here is exceedingly well-maintained, and similarly, tends to maintain its value over time. The cars driven are mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Lexus. If the public schools aren't up to snuff, the residents of this neighborhood preferentially send their children to private preparatory schools. Vacation to Disney? Yes, but equally popular are summers in Europe.
Also, priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood may actually hold the key. 71.0% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Finally, the rate of college educated adults in the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood is a unique characteristic of the neighborhood. 73.7% of adults here have received at least a 4-year bachelor's degree, compared to the average neighborhood in America, which has 34.3% of the adults with a bachelor's degree. The rate here is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 33.0% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.
Did you know that the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood has more Asian and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 35.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 2.3% have British ancestry.
Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood in The Colony 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 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood, 68.8% 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 20.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (6.6%), and 4.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood is English, spoken by 71.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Langs. of India, Vietnamese and Spanish.
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 Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood in The Colony, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (35.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (25.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.8%), among others. In addition, 23.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Castle Hills - Golf Villas / Castle Hills Golf Course neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (56.1%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.