Decker Hills / Ascot Farms median real estate price is $499,887, which is more expensive than 74.5% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 60.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Decker Hills / Ascot Farms is currently $2,660, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 87.3% of the neighborhoods in Texas.
Decker Hills / Ascot Farms is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Magnolia, Texas.
Decker Hills / Ascot Farms real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 7.5% in Decker Hills / Ascot Farms. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 51.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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.
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 Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood may actually hold the key. 72.8% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood has more Greek and Russian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 4.5% have Russian ancestry.
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 Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood in Magnolia are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood, 32.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (29.5%), and 8.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (19.8%).
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 Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood in Magnolia, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (37.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.0%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.6%), among others. In addition, 10.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Decker Hills / Ascot Farms neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (45.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.