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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia median real estate price is $119,883, which is less expensive than 88.3% of Texas neighborhoods and 91.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia is currently $1,138, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 93.2% of Texas neighborhoods.

Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Donna, Texas.

Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) mobile homes and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia 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.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 21.9%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 89.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (14.2%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

The Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 52.5% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia (24.1%) than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

The Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia neighborhood has more Canadian and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 76.3% have Mexican ancestry.

Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 77.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.3% 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 Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia neighborhood in Donna are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.5% 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 Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia neighborhood, 31.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.1%), and 16.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 77.6% of households. Some people also speak English (22.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia neighborhood in Donna, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (76.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report Spanish roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 28.5% 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 Lunar Heights Colonia / Villa Donna Colonia neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (67.2%) 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 (24.1%) . 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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