It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Needles has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Needles has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Needles than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Needles may be for you.
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 percentage of people in Needles with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.17% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or 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.
