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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Pleasant Grove East median real estate price is $211,693, which is more expensive than 34.4% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 25.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Pleasant Grove East is currently $1,816, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 45.5% of Texas neighborhoods.

Pleasant Grove East is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Dallas, Texas.

Pleasant Grove East real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Pleasant Grove East neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Real estate vacancies in Pleasant Grove East are 4.8%, which is lower than one will find in 67.8% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Pleasant Grove 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Dallas, the Pleasant Grove East neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the Pleasant Grove East neighborhood has more single mother households than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.

In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.3% of the adult residents in the Pleasant Grove East neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

There are more people living in the Pleasant Grove East neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (62.1%) 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the Pleasant Grove East neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 66.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

Pleasant Grove East is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 63.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Pleasant Grove East neighborhood in Dallas are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.4% 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 Pleasant Grove East neighborhood, 37.9% 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 35.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.4%), and 12.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Pleasant Grove East neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.4% of households. Some people also speak English (36.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pleasant Grove East neighborhood in Dallas, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (66.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (1.5%). In addition, 24.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Pleasant Grove East neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (12.6%) . 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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