The NE Tacoma Neighborhood Area, Area 3, contains about 326.5 acres.  Of the total area 172.2 acres are in single family residential landuse.  There are approximately 820 homes in the area with the median home accessed at $129,800 and median lot accessed at $102,600.  Total value of single family improvements is $133,902,200 and total value of land in this use is $96,179,400.  There is about 128.9 acres of vacant land in this neighborhood, most of which is composed of steep ravines that drain the residential uplands to the Hylebos Waterway and Puget Sound.  A small playground is located on the grounds of NE Tacoma Elementary School.  A small commercial area at the top of the Norpoint Way hill and industrial area at the bottom of the Norpoint Way hill make up an addtional 13.9 acres.  This neighborhood contains NE Tacoma Elementary School and its grounds take up about 4.6 acres.  Other residential takes up about 4 acres.  There are about 2.9 acres in the utility/infrastructure landuse.