Main entrance, Mission San Jose, San Antonio Texas
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King William and Lavaca down the river to the missions and Brooks

The city south of downtown between Interstate 35 and Interstate 37: King William and Lavaca beside the San Antonio River, then Mission San Jose downstream, Harlandale, and Brooks on the former air base.

Photograph: Main entrance, Mission San Jose, San Antonio Texas · NatBaca · CC0 · source

King William's streets were laid out between 1853 and 1859, and over the following decades it became the residential heart of the city's German community; King William Street is said to have been named by Ernst Hermann Altgelt for Wilhelm I, King of Prussia. The City designated it a historic district in 1968, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Downstream, Mission San Jose was founded in 1720 on the San Antonio River, one of the five Spanish missions along it, and moved to its present ground after an epidemic in 1739. It and three others, Concepción upstream and San Juan and Espada below it, make up the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, authorized in 1978, and on 5 July 2015 they and the Alamo were designated a World Heritage Site, the first such designation in Texas. The River Walk's Mission Reach, added in 2013, stretches some eight miles to them. Brooks began in 1917 as an army field for training flying instructors, took the name Brooks Field in February 1918, and received the School of Aviation Medicine in 1926; it closed on 15 September 2011, and the land has since become a mixed-use development inside a reinvestment zone the City designated in 2004. 5 guides are listed below.

The school district is the first thing to check south of downtown, because it is often neither San Antonio ISD nor the Northside ISD address the arithmetic on this site's calculators is built on. Harlandale ISD, whose 2025 rate was 1.2575 per $100 against Northside's 1.0049, takes in Harlandale and most of the streets around Mission San Jose, and part of Brooks is in East Central ISD, at 0.9319. The City's districts are the second: King William and Lavaca are historic districts, and the Mission historic district, 3,797 acres on the City's map and by far the largest of its 32, covers almost half of the Mission San Jose association's area, so whether a house is inside one, and what that asks of an owner, is worth settling before the offer. The river runs through all of it, and the flood map for the exact address belongs in the offer too.

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5 communities, guide by guide

King William and Lavaca down the river to the missions and Brooks

Brooks

The former Brooks Air Force Base, where Air Force operations ended in 2011, now a mixed-use development, taken as the City's Brooks City Base reinvestment zone, with about a quarter of its residents in East Central ISD.

6,406
Residents of the 76 census blocks inside the City's Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone 16, Brooks City Base, against 3,806 on the same ground in 2010, a rise of 68%, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
17%
Share of the 2,656 occupied homes on those blocks lived in by their owners; 2,206 were rented and 350 of the 3,006 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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King William and Lavaca down the river to the missions and Brooks

Harlandale

The South Side streets around Harlandale High School and Harlandale Creek that the Harlandale-McCollum association files, about 27,000 residents, all in Harlandale ISD.

27,018
Residents of the 365 census blocks inside the Harlandale-McCollum association's area, against 27,522 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
62%
Share of the 8,792 occupied homes lived in by their owners; 2,785 were owned free and clear, more than the 2,709 with a mortgage, and 3,298 were rented, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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King William and Lavaca down the river to the missions and Brooks

King William

The neighborhood beside the San Antonio River south of downtown that was subdivided between 1853 and 1866 as German immigrants arrived, as the City's King William historic district, 220 acres with 1,525 residents.

1,525
Residents of the 50 census blocks inside the City's King William historic district, against about 1,400 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
62%
Share of the 737 occupied homes on those blocks lived in by their owners; 279 were rented and 163 of the 900 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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King William and Lavaca down the river to the missions and Brooks

Lavaca

East of King William and south of Hemisfair, taken as the area the Lavaca association files, with the City's Lavaca historic district covering 1,022 of its 2,358 residents.

2,358
Residents of the 68 census blocks inside the area the Lavaca Neighborhood Association files, against 2,319 on about the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
59%
Share of the 1,154 occupied homes on those blocks that were rented; 470 were lived in by their owners and 288 of the 1,442 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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King William and Lavaca down the river to the missions and Brooks

Mission San Jose

The streets around Mission San Jose on the San Antonio River that the Mission San Jose association files, mostly in Harlandale ISD, with the City's Mission historic district over about half of it.

5,636
Residents of the 74 census blocks inside the Mission San Jose association's area, against 5,632 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
45%
Share of the 1,844 occupied homes lived in by their owners; 1,017 were rented and 171 of the 2,015 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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Photographs: Brooks AFB Hangar 9 San Antonio by Travis K. Witt, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · The San Antonio skyline from the south by Medialecent, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · San Antonio King William District by Tony Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · The Pig Building on South St. Mary's Street by Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.