Arnett Benson median real estate price is $93,849, which is less expensive than 94.1% of Texas neighborhoods and 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Arnett Benson is currently $1,371, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 81.7% of Texas neighborhoods.
Arnett Benson is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lubbock, Texas.
Arnett Benson real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two 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 Arnett Benson neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Arnett Benson has a 12.5% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 70.9% 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.
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 Arnett Benson (25.6%) than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.3% of the adult residents in the Arnett Benson neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the Arnett Benson neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Did you know that the Arnett Benson neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 77.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
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 Arnett Benson neighborhood in Lubbock are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.2% 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 Arnett Benson neighborhood, 40.5% 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 36.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.3%), and 9.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Arnett Benson neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 56.0% of households. Some people also speak English (44.0%).
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 Arnett Benson neighborhood in Lubbock, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (77.8%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report English roots (1.8%).
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 Arnett Benson neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (55.3%) 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 (25.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.