Westover / Sunset Terrace median real estate price is $147,822, which is less expensive than 84.1% of Texas neighborhoods and 88.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Westover / Sunset Terrace is currently $2,083, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 67.6% of the neighborhoods in Texas.
Westover / Sunset Terrace is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Pasadena, Texas.
Westover / Sunset Terrace real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Westover / Sunset Terrace has a 9.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 62.6% 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.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 56.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Westover / Sunset Terrace 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 49.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.7% of American neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 97.5% of the adult residents in the Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.3% of the neighborhoods in TX. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
The Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood has earned the amazing distinction of having one of the highest rates of detached, single-family homes of any neighborhood in the U.S. With 97.1% of the residential real estate here made up of free-standing single-family homes, there is a greater proportion of single-family homes here than in 95.1% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 89.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Westover / Sunset Terrace is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 72.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.8% 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 Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood in Pasadena are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% 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 Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood, 49.0% 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 19.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.3%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 72.6% of households. Some people also speak English (26.7%).
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 Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood in Pasadena, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (89.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (1.3%), and residents who report Swedish roots (1.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 39.3% 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 Westover / Sunset Terrace neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (20.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.