E North St / N Laurent St median real estate price is $116,041, which is less expensive than 89.5% of Texas neighborhoods and 92.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in E North St / N Laurent St is currently $1,471, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 74.2% of Texas neighborhoods.
E North St / N Laurent St is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Victoria, Texas.
E North St / N Laurent St real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 E North St / N Laurent St 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 E North St / N Laurent St. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 20.9%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 87.9% 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.
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 Victoria, the E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood is unique for having just 7.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of America's neighborhoods.
In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood.
Did you know that the E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 71.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
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 E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood in Victoria are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.0% 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 E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood, 36.6% 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 36.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.9%), and 11.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood is English, spoken by 52.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (47.2%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood in Victoria, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (71.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.1%), and residents who report French roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 E North St / N Laurent St neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.