Aguila is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 565 people and just one neighborhood, Aguila is the 164th largest community in Arizona. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Aguila, 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 Aguila, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Aguila’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Aguila does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $48,523.00.
Aguila home prices are not only among the most expensive in Arizona, but Aguila real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
When you are in Aguila, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.38% of Aguila’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Aguila is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Aguila who work in sales jobs (21.15%), office and administrative support (19.23%), and farm management occupations (19.23%).
Overall, Aguila’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town 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, Aguila has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Aguila a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 14.82 minutes getting to work every day.
Aguila is a small town, 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 Aguila, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Aguila does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Aguila are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.24% of adults in Aguila have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Aguila in 2022 was $12,386, which is low income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $49,544 for a family of four. Aguila also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.48% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Aguila is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Aguila home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Aguila, accounting for 62.02% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Aguila residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Aguila include English, German, Polish, French, and Yugoslavian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Aguila's cultural character, accounting for 23.56% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Aguila is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 13.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
If you are planning to retire in Arizona, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Arizona, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 95.1% of neighborhoods in AZ. If a Arizona retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 4.0% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Aguila are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.6% 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 76.5% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 45.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (11.4%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Aguila, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (11.2%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 (34.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (66.4%) 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 (14.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.