Gulfton St / Renwick Dr median real estate price is $646,044, which is more expensive than 91.0% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 77.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Gulfton St / Renwick Dr is currently $1,344, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 83.7% of Texas neighborhoods.
Gulfton St / Renwick Dr is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Houston, Texas.
Gulfton St / Renwick Dr real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two 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 Gulfton St / Renwick 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.
Gulfton St / Renwick Dr has a 11.8% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 68.8% 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.
Real Estate
The Gulfton St / Renwick 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 100.0% 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.
In addition, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 100.0%, which is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
Furthermore, the real estate in the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 93.5% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 98.7% of American neighborhoods.
Also of note, the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 32,899 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 97.3% of the nation's neighborhoods.
Finally, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Gulfton St / Renwick 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, 82.8% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
Occupations
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood than in 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Furthermore, there are more people living in the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (58.2%) 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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr (29.3%) than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
People
One of the unique characteristics of the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Car Ownership
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood buck this trend. 19.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Migration / Stability
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 Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (74.2%) than are found in 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Significantly, 91.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.6% 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 Gulfton St / Renwick 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 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 51.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.5% 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 Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood, 53.5% 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 41.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (2.8%).
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 Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 91.4% 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 Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood in Houston, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (28.8%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.0%), and residents who report Asian roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 74.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Gulfton St / Renwick Dr neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (62.2%) 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 (29.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
