Doolittle median real estate price is $191,786, which is less expensive than 73.2% of Texas neighborhoods and 80.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Doolittle is currently $1,254, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 89.7% of Texas neighborhoods.
Doolittle is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Edinburg, Texas.
Doolittle real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Doolittle neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Doolittle has a 14.2% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 76.0% 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.
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 Edinburg, the Doolittle neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note, 61.7% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the Doolittle neighborhood.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Doolittle (22.2%) than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Doolittle neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 92.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Doolittle is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 91.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Doolittle neighborhood in Edinburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 61.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.2% 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 Doolittle neighborhood, 39.8% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.9%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Doolittle neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak English (8.1%).
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 Doolittle neighborhood in Edinburg, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (92.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.3%), and residents who report Welsh roots (1.5%). In addition, 22.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Doolittle neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (62.8%) 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 (22.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.