Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave median real estate price is $411,083, which is more expensive than 68.5% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 53.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave is currently $2,011, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 64.2% of the neighborhoods in Texas.
Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Houston, Texas.
Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more 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 Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave, the current vacancy rate is 0.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 100.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 Houston, the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
In addition, homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood's real estate landscape than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 79.5% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.
People
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, an extraordinary 22.3% of the residents of the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
Also, single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood about it; they already know. 21.7% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.8% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
Finally, the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood stands out within Texas for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 7.3% of college-friendly places to live in TX.
Modes of Transportation
In the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 32.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood has more Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 51.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry.
Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 27.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Migration / Stability
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. In the Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 96.2% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.
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 Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood in Houston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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 Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood, 44.3% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.0%), and 11.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
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 Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood is English, spoken by 52.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish and Langs. of India.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood in Houston, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (51.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of Portuguese ancestry (1.3%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.1%), among others. In addition, 39.1% 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 Dixie Farm Rd / Lott Ave neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (66.4%) 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 (32.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
