East Columbia / Wild Peach Village median real estate price is $171,227, which is less expensive than 77.2% of Texas neighborhoods and 83.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in East Columbia / Wild Peach Village is currently $1,386, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 80.4% of Texas neighborhoods.
East Columbia / Wild Peach Village is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in West Columbia, Texas.
East Columbia / Wild Peach Village real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
East Columbia / Wild Peach Village has a 12.6% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 71.3% 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.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in West Columbia, the East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood has more British and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.0% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 1.1% have Belgian ancestry.
East Columbia / Wild Peach Village is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% 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 East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood in West Columbia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.0% 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 68.1% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood, 33.7% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.0%), and 19.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (18.5%).
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 East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood in West Columbia, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report English roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some British ancestry residents (6.0%), among others.
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 East Columbia / Wild Peach Village neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.