Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia median real estate price is $253,846, which is more expensive than 43.2% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 31.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia is currently $2,145, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 70.2% of the neighborhoods in Texas.
Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in McAllen, Texas.
Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia 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 Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia, the current vacancy rate is 2.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 81.1% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood. A whopping 67.1% 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 95.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
With more than 1.6% of residents living with a same sex partner, Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood has more Mexican and Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 75.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 1.4% have Iranian ancestry.
Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 62.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood in McAllen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.6% 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 Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood, 42.9% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.5%), and 17.4% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 62.2% of households. Some people also speak English (30.6%).
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 Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood in McAllen, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (75.5%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.0%), among others. In addition, 25.4% 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 Hackbury Creek / Racquet Club Colonia neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.2%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.