Buckingham – Richardson, Texas
About Richardson, Texas
Located in Dallas County, Richardson is a great spot for families and young professionals alike, with restaurants, coffee shops, and bars, along with fantastic parks and other family-friendly activities. And, best of all, you’re never too far from all the hustle and bustle of Dallas.
Right outside Dallas and Plano is the city of Richardson, TX, a more affluent suburb that is known for its balance between urban and suburban vibes.
More than 5,000 businesses have operations within Richardson’s 28 square miles (73 km2), including many of the world’s largest telecommunications and networking companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Cisco Systems, Samsung, ZTE, MetroPCS, Texas Instruments, Qorvo, and Fujitsu. Richardson’s largest employment base is provided by the insurance industry, with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas’s headquarters, a regional hub for GEICO, regional offices for United Healthcare, and one of State Farm Insurance’s three national regional hubs located in the community.
Buckingham – Neighborhood in Richardson
Buckingham is an area within Richardson, Texas, the United States that was formerly a separately incorporated city. As of the 1990 census, the city had a total population of 102. Encompassing only 159 acres (0.6 km2), Buckingham, near Dallas, was surrounded by Richardson.
In the early 1980s, real estate speculators bought most of the land, intending to create a planned development similar to the Las Colinas planned development in north Irving. To spur development, the residents voted to allow alcohol sales in the community before they were bought out. But the real estate market declined, and by the late 1980s, the development company went bankrupt.
The 1990s brought more development to the area, though not without causing conflicts with nearby Richardson residents. At one point, conflicts between the cities led to school zone signs being removed from one Buckingham road, leading parents to stand alongside the road waving flags to warn motorists to slow down.
In April 1996, though, conflicts between Buckingham and Richardson were resolved once and for all, when Buckingham’s 159 acres (0.6 km2) were annexed into the city of Richardson. Since it allowed alcohol sales before annexation, it remained “wet” although the vast majority of Richardson was at the time “dry”. (With the other exception being a small area of land annexed into Richardson along with SH 190.) Richardson residents voted on whether to allow beer and wine sales in the 2006 general election. The measure passed with 68% in favor, so Richardson is no longer considered “dry.”
Buckingham’s median real estate price is $402,604, which is more expensive than 83.0% of the neighborhoods in Texas and 67.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Buckingham is currently $2,016, based on NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 80.4% of the neighborhoods in Texas.