The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Needles has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Needles a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Needles is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.30 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Needles does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Needles is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.17% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Needles in 2022 was $29,068, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,272 for a family of four. However, Needles contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Needles is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Needles home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Needles residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Needles also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Needles include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Needles is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
