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Real Estate Prices & Overview

South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights median real estate price is $288,275, which is more expensive than 52.8% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 39.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights is currently $1,888, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 40.6% of Texas neighborhoods.

South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Irving, Texas.

South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights has a 10.8% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 65.1% 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

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 Irving, the South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights 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 50.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of American neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

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 South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (48.8%) than are found in 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 75.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood in Irving are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.4% 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 South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood, 50.8% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (14.3%), and 5.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 75.7% of households. Some people also speak English (19.4%).

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 South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood in Irving, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (60.4%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report English roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.6%). In addition, 48.8% 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 South Austin Heights / North Austin Heights neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.3%) 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 (17.8%) . 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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