Crime Spreads

Armed robbers torment new Houston neighborhoods: Crooks move in almost as soon as the houses

Homeowners move into new areas to find a better life for themselves and their families. People who jumped into the subdivisions of Village of Kings Lake and Greensbrook Place aren't necessarily finding that's the case though.

These new and growing neighborhoods in North East Houston have already become a favorite of burglars.

"They tied us up, and he held the gun to my head."

The burglars are testing the residents' patience. One guy and his roommate were woken up at 2 a.m. to some tail lights leaving their driveway. Walter Moreno watched someone try and break into his truck in video footage from the camera he has set up outside his home.

Moreno and his roommate, Jorge Galvis, both got in their trucks and chased after the spooked burglar. Moreno's truck had been stolen from his driveway a few weeks earlier. The police found it stripped with missing headlights.

A resident of Greensbrook Place, which is nearby, was taking out his trash when he was held up at gunpoint.

"They tied us up, and he held the gun to my head," J.R. Parker tells KHOU.

Village of Kings Lake is located off Lockwood inside Beltway 8 while Greensbrook Place is located off North Lake Houston Parkway inside Beltway 8.

In the past six months, Greensbrook has seen at least seven burglaries.

The police believe that there are multiple robbers targeting the neighborhoods with some of the crooks working in groups. They are urging residents to write down license plate numbers and to take photos of anything suspicious looking.

Watch the full KHOU Ch. 11 report:

Greensbrook Place subdivision, located in NE Houston, has been a target for burglaries.

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Greensbrook Place subdivision, located in NE Houston, has been a target for burglaries.

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by the numbers

Remote workers in Houston earn far more than commuters, data shows

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Remote workers in Houston earn 40 percent more than their commuting counterparts, according to recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

In the Houston metro area, it pays to work from home.

Data published recently by the U.S. Census Bureau shows remote workers in the Houston metro earn 40 percent more than their commuting counterparts. For remote workers in the Houston area, median earnings stood at $67,500 in 2023, compared with $48,200 for other workers.

Federal data cited by Visual Capitalist indicates 11.8 percent of the Houston area’s labor pool, or nearly 460,000 people, were remote workers in 2023.

In the Dallas metro area, the difference in median earnings between remote workers and non-remote workers is even more stark. According to Census Bureau data, remote workers there earned $77,000 in 2023 — 50.7 percent more than the $51,100 for traditional workers.

Why the wide gap in pay? The Census Bureau says remote workers are more likely to be older, more likely to be white, and less likely to live below the poverty line. All of these traits contribute to higher income.

Among home-based workers in the country’s five biggest metros, median earnings for remote workers were highest in the New York and Chicago areas (over $80,000) and lowest in the Houston area (under $70,000), according to the Census Bureau.

The five-metro comparison also reveals that the Houston area had the highest share (6.8 percent) of all workers, both remote and non-remote, living below the federal poverty level.

In a recent Substack post, urban planner Bill Fulton notes that remote workers in major cities typically earn 50 percent to 80 percent more than other workers do. He declares that “remote workers are far more affluent than everybody else. They are, of course, office workers, not blue-collar or service workers, and they tend to be more highly educated.”

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This story originally appeared on our sister site, InnovationMap.

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