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. Much of the housing stock in Aquilla was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Aquilla economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Aquilla, where the median household income is .
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Aquilla is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.90% of the Aquilla workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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.
Aquilla’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Aquilla is worth considering.
One downside of living in Aquilla is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Aquilla, the average commute to work is 32.30 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Aquilla is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Aquilla, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.96% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
As is often the case in a small city, Aquilla doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Aquilla is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.00% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an 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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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.
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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).
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.
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.