Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave median real estate price is $130,907, which is less expensive than 86.9% of Texas neighborhoods and 90.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave is currently $1,142, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 94.5% of Texas neighborhoods.
Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Brownsville, Texas.
Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two 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 Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave 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.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.9% in Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 54.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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.
One of the unique characteristics of the Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America. The Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (56.2%) than found in 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 95.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 93.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood in Brownsville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 56.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.9% 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 Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood, 27.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 23.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak English (6.2%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood in Brownsville, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (95.8%). In addition, 39.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Boca Chica Blvd / N Minnesota Ave neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.9%) 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 (19.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.