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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Moore Road Colonia median real estate price is $148,710, which is less expensive than 82.3% of Texas neighborhoods and 87.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Moore Road Colonia is currently $1,393, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 76.3% of Texas neighborhoods.

Moore Road Colonia is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Pharr, Texas.

Moore Road Colonia real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) mobile homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Moore Road Colonia neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

In Moore Road Colonia, the current vacancy rate is 2.2%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 84.5% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Moore Road Colonia is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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 Pharr, the Moore Road Colonia neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The Moore Road Colonia neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 58.0% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% 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

In the Moore Road Colonia neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 29.4% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Moore Road Colonia neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the Moore Road Colonia neighborhood has more Mexican and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 83.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 4.9% have Dominican ancestry.

Moore Road Colonia is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 79.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.6% 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 Moore Road Colonia neighborhood in Pharr are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.7% 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 Moore Road Colonia neighborhood, 27.2% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 20.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Moore Road Colonia neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 79.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and French.

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 Moore Road Colonia neighborhood in Pharr, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (83.0%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report German roots (2.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.3%). In addition, 29.0% 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 Moore Road Colonia neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (57.0%) 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 (29.4%) and 6.3% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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