Spring Branch Central East median real estate price is $202,555, which is less expensive than 69.8% of Texas neighborhoods and 78.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Spring Branch Central East is currently $1,498, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 72.1% of Texas neighborhoods.
Spring Branch Central East is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Houston, Texas.
Spring Branch Central East 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 single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Spring Branch Central East neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Real estate vacancies in Spring Branch Central East are 5.7%, which is lower than one will find in 62.0% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Spring Branch Central East 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.
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 Spring Branch Central East 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 64.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.9% of American neighborhoods.
In the Spring Branch Central East neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 45.3% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Of note, 60.0% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Spring Branch Central East neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Spring Branch Central East neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (60.0%) than are found in 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Spring Branch Central East neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
Spring Branch Central East is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 79.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.5% 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 Spring Branch Central East 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 78.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 60.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.8% of U.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 Spring Branch Central East neighborhood, 64.9% 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 19.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (11.5%), and 2.9% 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 Spring Branch Central East neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 79.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Vietnamese.
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 Spring Branch Central East neighborhood in Houston, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (41.7%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (2.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (1.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 60.0% 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 Spring Branch Central East neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (50.8%) 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 (45.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.