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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 median real estate price is $253,626, which is more expensive than 45.3% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 33.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 is currently $1,487, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 70.4% of Texas neighborhoods.

Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Edinburg, Texas.

Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 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 Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 has a 11.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 68.9% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.

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.

Real Estate

If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood. A whopping 68.5% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood has more Mexican and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 90.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 1.6% have Brazilian ancestry.

Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 70.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.4% 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 Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood in Edinburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 33.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% 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 Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood, 34.6% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.8%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 70.2% of households. Some people also speak English (29.2%).

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 Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood in Edinburg, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (90.0%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (2.1%), and residents who report Brazilian roots (1.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.2%). In addition, 16.6% 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 Rodriguez Colonia / Rodriguez Colonia Number 2 neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (18.3%) . 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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