Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia median real estate price is $366,634, which is more expensive than 66.7% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 50.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia is currently $1,649, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 60.4% of Texas neighborhoods.
Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Mission, Texas.
Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 19.2%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 85.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (15.8%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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.
Did you know that the Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia neighborhood has more Mexican and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 77.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 2.8% have Greek ancestry.
Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 66.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.8% 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 Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia neighborhood in Mission are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.3% of America'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 Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia neighborhood, 40.7% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.2%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 66.3% of households. Some people also speak English (32.6%).
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 Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia neighborhood in Mission, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (77.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report Asian roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (3.4%), along with some Greek ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 20.5% 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 Alturas de Azahares Colonia / Citrus Hills Colonia neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (16.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.