Quanah - Chillicothe is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,516 people and just one neighborhood, Quanah - Chillicothe is the 474th largest community in Texas.
Quanah - Chillicothe is a blue-collar town, with 36.08% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Quanah - Chillicothe is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Quanah - Chillicothe who work in office and administrative support (11.60%), healthcare (11.11%), and management occupations (10.66%).
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!) Quanah - Chillicothe 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. Quanah - Chillicothe has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Quanah - Chillicothe than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Quanah - Chillicothe may be for you.
One of the benefits of Quanah - Chillicothe is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.22 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Quanah - Chillicothe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Quanah - Chillicothe is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.43% of adults 25 and older in Quanah - Chillicothe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Quanah - Chillicothe in 2022 was $29,783, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $119,132 for a family of four. However, Quanah - Chillicothe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Quanah - Chillicothe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Quanah - Chillicothe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Quanah - Chillicothe residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Quanah - Chillicothe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.55% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Quanah - Chillicothe include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Quanah - Chillicothe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.2% of America.
If you are planning to retire in Texas, 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 Texas, 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 95.9% of neighborhoods in TX. If a Texas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 57.5% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.
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 Quanah - Chillicothe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.8% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.7%).
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 Quanah - Chillicothe, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.0%) 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 (19.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.