Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr median real estate price is $261,660, which is more expensive than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 30.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr is currently $1,092, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 93.7% of Texas neighborhoods.
Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Houston, Texas.
Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Real estate vacancies in Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr are 4.2%, which is lower than one will find in 69.6% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr (37.3%) than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
100.0% of the real estate in the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
In addition, the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 42,886 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.1% of the nation's neighborhoods.
Furthermore, the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 91.0% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.
Also of note, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 80.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 96.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
Finally, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 82.0% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr 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 45.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of American neighborhoods.
Furthermore, there are more people living in the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (62.8%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 31.2% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (57.9%) than are found in 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood has more Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry.
Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood in Houston are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.2% 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 Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood, 45.2% 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 37.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (9.9%), and 7.6% 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 Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 68.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
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 Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood in Houston, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (48.3%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Cuban roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 57.9% 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 Duchamp Dr / Woodfair Dr neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (56.5%) 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 (37.3%) and 5.1% of residents also ride the bus 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.
