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Aquilla, TX

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Overview


Aquilla is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 110 people and just one neighborhood, Aquilla is the 1042nd largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Aquilla, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Aquilla, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Aquilla’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Aquilla does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is .

Occupations and Workforce

Aquilla is a blue-collar town, with 44.90% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Aquilla is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Aquilla who work in food service (16.33%), art, media, and design (8.16%), and office and administrative support (6.12%).

Of important note, Aquilla is also a city of artists. Aquilla has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Aquilla’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Aquilla’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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!) Aquilla 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. Aquilla has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Aquilla than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Aquilla may be for you.

In Aquilla, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.30 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Aquilla is a very car-oriented city. 97.96% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Aquilla is a small city , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Aquilla has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small city, Aquilla does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Aquilla with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Aquilla in 2022 was $19,386, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,544 for a family of four. However, Aquilla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Aquilla home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Aquilla residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Aquilla include English, Irish, Czech, Scots-Irish, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Aquilla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 39 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.1% of America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Aquilla are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.3% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 29.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.4%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Aquilla, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report German roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (73.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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