Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia median real estate price is $164,136, which is less expensive than 80.4% of Texas neighborhoods and 86.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia is currently $1,258, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 84.9% of Texas neighborhoods.
Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Edinburg, Texas.
Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia has a 11.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 70.4% 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.
Corner bodegas, stores on the first floor and apartments above, former grand Victorian residences converted into apartments, three-deckers built shoulder-to-shoulder, duplexes. Such building types define the real estate of neighborhoods dominated by small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. Many are in older core neighborhoods of Eastern and Midwestern cities, or historic town centers in their hinterlands. If you wax romantic about the look and feel of such neighborhoods, with fresh pizza, falafel and an independent florist at the corner, then you might find the Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood worth a close look. This neighborhood is an absolutely outstanding example of the dominance of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings compared to neighborhoods across the nation, as they make up a substantial portion of this neighborhood's real estate stock. In fact, no less than 41.0% of the real estate here is made up of such dwellings, which is higher than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood. A whopping 77.6% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood about it; they already know. 18.8% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.3% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
Did you know that the Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 75.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 66.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.0% 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 Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia 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 77.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.4% 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 Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood, 35.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (27.6%), and 12.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 66.6% of households. Some people also speak English (33.4%).
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 Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood in Edinburg, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (75.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.5%), and residents who report German roots (2.0%).
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 Beretta Estates Colonia / Sugar Acres Colonia neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.