Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd median real estate price is $277,750, which is more expensive than 47.6% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 33.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd is currently $1,596, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 62.0% of Texas neighborhoods.
Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Houston, Texas.
Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments 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 Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd has a 14.5% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 77.8% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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 Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There are more people living in the Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (59.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Did you know that the Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood has more Haitian and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 1.5% have Brazilian ancestry.
Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. What is interesting to note, is that the Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (44.3%) than are found in 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood in Houston are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood, 40.1% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.5%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 44.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Vietnamese, Urdu (the national language of Pakistan) and French.
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 Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood in Houston, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (18.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report Haitian roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (4.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.3%), among others. In addition, 44.3% 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 Sylvanfield Dr / Bammel North Houston Rd neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (12.1%) and 5.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.