3rd ward, TX Real Estate

Median Income $21,911

Median Age 31.46

Population 16,626

	Median Temperature
	January	HI 63°	LO 45°	July	HI 93°	LO 75°

	School Test Scores
	Elementary: Atherton Briscoe Burnet De Zavala Kashmere Gardens Mcdade N Q Henderson Port Houston R L Isaacs Rusk Scott Tijerina Blackshear Blanche K Bruce Bonner Cage Charter Carrillo Cimarron Cloverleaf Crawford Crespo Davila Dodson Dogan Eliot Foster Franklin Galena Park Gallegos George I Sanchez Green Valley Hartsfield J Henderson J R Harris J Will Jones Jacinto City L L Pugh Lantrip Lockhart Macarthur Macarthur Macgregor Normandy Crossing North Shore Park Place Patterson Peck Pleasant Hill Academy Pleasantville Pyburn R P Harris Raul C Martinez Ross Ruby Thompson Rucker Sam Houston Scroggins Southmayd Tsu Charter Lab Turner Whidby Whittier Woodland Acres Banneker - Mcnair Academy St John's Academy Wheatley Child Dev Center		Middle: Cullen Deady E O Smith Education Center Edison Fleming Galena Park Holland Jackson Key Mcreynolds North Shore Pro - Vision Charter Project Chrysalis Ryan W I Stevenson William A Lawson Institute Woodland Acres		High: Accelerated Center For Education Accelerated Learning & Trans Academy Austin C E P Se Center For Success Chavez Contemporary Learning Center Mid Debakey East Early College Eastwood Academy Galena Park H C C Life Skills Program H P Carter Career Center Houston Night International Jordan For Careers Milby Senior Sheffield Career Center Wheatley Yates North Shore
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At first glance, the Third Ward appears to be just another inner-city neighborhood in the midst of revitalization efforts, however, the Third Ward of Houston is determined to stand out as a cultural and historical landmark. Bisected by Scott Street, the Third Ward encompasses 15,463 residents in a primarily African American Community southeast of downtown Houston. Following Scott St. south, the historically and culturally rich community extends south from the University of Houston to Old Spanish Trail, north to the Gulf Freeway, west to Fannin Street and east to the H.B. \& T Railroad. Originally a small community of shotgun style houses and modest frame homes, the area's once thriving business district beginning to show signs of life following thirty years of economic decline. Texas Southern University leads this movement, spearheading support and organizing major community efforts to maintain and improve this historically rich District. Best known of these recent efforts is the Alabama Garden, a 56-bed vegetable garden at 2818 Alabama – the largest urban community garden in the country. Begun by local residents in 1985 and with subsequent land and labor donations from Texas Southern University, the garden was enlarged to provide an oasis for educational, recreational and fresh vegetables for area residents, most of it taken to shut-ins or the sick. The gardeners also host school supply drives, Easter egg hunts and holiday food drives for Third Ward residents. The landmark Third Ward to Main Street Connectivity Project is another major community renovation project coordinated by TSU. The Third Ward to Main Street Connectivity Project is a collaborative, transportation initiative to link Houstons Third Ward community with the Main Street Corridor and light rail system creating essential east west, transportation and pedestrian connections. With its inclusion of both Texas Southern University and the University of Houston – largely commuter campuses serving over 39,000s student -- the project will focus on improving and expanding transit access between the Main Street Corridor and Third Ward neighborhoods and institutions. The transportation project is the key to unlocking job opportunities within the Main Street Corridor, as well as opening up the neighborhood to the rest of the city and its institutions.

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