Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area median real estate price is $141,411, which is less expensive than 84.7% of Texas neighborhoods and 89.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area is currently $1,299, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 86.6% of Texas neighborhoods.
Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Tyler, Texas.
Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 22.4%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 89.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 56.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.7% of American neighborhoods.
The Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood is unique for having just 4.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.6% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood has more Mexican 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.
Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 70.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while. What is interesting to note, is that the Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (43.8%) than are found in 95.7% 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 Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood in Tyler are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.7% 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 Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood, 56.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (10.1%), and 5.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 70.2% of households. Some people also speak English (29.2%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood in Tyler, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (75.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (3.2%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others. In addition, 43.8% 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 Hillside Park Area / Greenberg Turkey Area neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (21.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.