It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Highlands 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. Highlands has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Highlands than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Highlands may be for you.
In Highlands, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.26 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
For a small town, Highlands has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Highlands exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The percentage of people in Highlands with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.32% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Highlands in 2022 was $31,834, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,336 for a family of four. However, Highlands contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Highlands is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Highlands home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Highlands residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Highlands also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 40.54% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Highlands include English, German, Irish, Swedish, and French.
In addition, Highlands has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.75%).
The most common language spoken in Highlands is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
