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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln median real estate price is $279,267, which is more expensive than 49.3% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 36.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln is currently $1,600, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 63.9% of Texas neighborhoods.

Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Houston, Texas.

Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln 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 Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Real estate vacancies in Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln are 4.9%, which is lower than one will find in 67.0% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln neighborhood has more Austrian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 4.1% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.7% 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 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln neighborhood in Houston are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.8% 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 68.7% 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 Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln neighborhood, 55.8% 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 18.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.2%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln neighborhood is English, spoken by 60.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Urdu (the national language of Pakistan), Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) 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 Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln neighborhood in Houston, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.2%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report English roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others. In addition, 16.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Thunderbay Dr / Beachcomber Ln neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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