Las Villas de Oak Cliff median real estate price is $172,710, which is less expensive than 78.5% of Texas neighborhoods and 84.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Las Villas de Oak Cliff is currently $1,919, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 40.3% of Texas neighborhoods.
Las Villas de Oak Cliff is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Dallas, Texas.
Las Villas de Oak Cliff real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Las Villas de Oak Cliff are 5.4%, which is lower than one will find in 63.0% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Las Villas de Oak Cliff 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.
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.
The Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood is unique for having just 5.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of America's neighborhoods.
If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 10.9% of the Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 95.7% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 69.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Las Villas de Oak Cliff is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 64.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 62.6% of America'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 Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood, 45.6% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.1%), and 7.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 64.2% of households. Some people also speak English (34.9%).
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 Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (69.8%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (3.5%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (1.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others. In addition, 34.4% 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 Las Villas de Oak Cliff neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.