Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr median real estate price is $354,746, which is more expensive than 64.6% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 47.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr is currently $2,424, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 80.7% of the neighborhoods in Texas.
Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Tomball, Texas.
Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr, the current vacancy rate is 2.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 81.7% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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.
Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood's real estate landscape than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 96.2% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer. In fact, the concentration of newer homes here is so great that they completely dominate the landscape. In most neighborhoods, there is a mixture of ages of residential real estate, but here it is almost completely built during one time frame: 2000 through today.
In addition, some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.
The Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Texas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood has more Arab and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry and 1.1% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood in Tomball are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood, 37.3% 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 36.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.7%), and 8.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood in Tomball, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report German roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.1%), among others. In addition, 21.1% 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 Melissa Springs Dr / Memorial Falls Dr neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.