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The West Side, Prospect Hill to Los Angeles Heights

The city west and northwest of downtown, from Prospect Hill on the West Side up to Jefferson and Los Angeles Heights beyond Interstate 10.

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By the 1930s the West Side was, in the Handbook of Texas's words, predominantly Mexican American, and its living conditions drew Father Carmelo Tranchese, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, to press for better health and housing there as one of the members of the new San Antonio Housing Authority in 1937; by the early 1940s the city had its first housing projects, the Alazan-Apache Courts among them. Olmos Dam, finished in 1926 after the 1921 flood, protected downtown, and the poorer West Side neighborhoods waited decades longer for effective flood control. Kelly Field, where flying began on 5 April 1917 at the city's southwestern edge, was for a number of years San Antonio's largest single employer; it was inactivated on 13 July 2001 and became Port San Antonio in 2007. Farther north, Jefferson, northwest of Woodlawn Lake, became a City neighborhood conservation district in 2009, and Los Angeles Heights, beyond Interstate 10, holds the small Greenlawn Estates historic district. 3 guides are listed below.

Two checks come before the price here. Most of these streets are in San Antonio ISD, at 1.1552 per $100 in 2025, but part of Prospect Hill is in Edgewood ISD, at 0.98615, and neither is the Northside ISD address the arithmetic on this site's calculators is built on. Edgewood is the district on whose behalf a school finance suit was filed in 1984, which led the Texas Supreme Court to rule unanimously on 2 October 1989 that the state's system was unconstitutional, after setting Edgewood's $38,854 of property wealth per student against Alamo Heights ISD's $570,109. And the creeks run through the West Side, Apache Creek through Prospect Hill, Alazan Creek along the edge of Jefferson and Martinez Creek by Los Angeles Heights, so the flood map for the exact address, and a flood policy priced on it, belong in the offer.

The guides

3 communities, guide by guide

The West Side, Prospect Hill to Los Angeles Heights

Jefferson

The streets northwest of Woodlawn Lake taken as the City's Jefferson conservation district, adopted in 2009, with Alazan Creek along its edge and Thomas Jefferson High School just outside, in Monticello Park.

3,647
Residents of the 87 census blocks inside the Jefferson conservation district, against 3,806 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
74%
Share of the 1,401 occupied homes on those blocks lived in by their owners; 363 were rented and 159 of the 1,560 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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The West Side, Prospect Hill to Los Angeles Heights

Los Angeles Heights

Northwest of downtown and west of Interstate 10, the streets the Los Angeles Heights association files, with Martinez Creek at their edge and the small Greenlawn Estates historic district inside.

6,745
Residents of the 168 census blocks inside the Los Angeles Heights association's area, against 6,876 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
62%
Share of the 2,244 occupied homes on those blocks lived in by their owners; 842 were rented and 209 of the 2,453 homes stood vacant, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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The West Side, Prospect Hill to Los Angeles Heights

Prospect Hill

West Side streets that the Prospect Hill association files, about 18,700 residents on 1,849 acres with Apache Creek running through, most in San Antonio ISD and about a fifth in Edgewood ISD.

18,684
Residents of the 523 census blocks inside the Prospect Hill association's area, against 20,374 on the same ground in 2010, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
58%
Share of the 6,036 occupied homes on those blocks lived in by their owners; 2,210 were owned free and clear, more than the 1,312 with a mortgage, and 2,514 were rented, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
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Photographs: Thomas Jefferson High School, San Antonio, TX by Highlycaffeinated, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · The San Antonio skyline from the south by Medialecent, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.