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About Onalaska
City in Polk County, Texas, United StatesOnalaska is a city in Polk County, Texas, United States. Situated on a peninsula on Lake Livingston, it had a population of 3,020 at the 2020 census. Settled during the Republic of Texas period, the site remained a small farming community until the lumberman William Carlisle developed it as a company town around 1905, building a large sawmill and chartering the Beaumont and Great Northern Railroad to serve it. Onalaska boomed to a population of about 2,000 by 1908, but the exhaustion of local timber and flooding on the Trinity River closed the mill, and the town declined to roughly eighty residents by the late 1940s. The completion of Lake Livingston in 1968 reversed that decline, and Onala…
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How Onalaska ranks
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Housing in Onalaska
The typical Onalaska home is worth about $173,000, down 3.9% in a year, 42% below the Texas typical home.
Safety in Onalaska
Safety Grade C
Onalaska reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 74% report less.
Work & commute in Onalaska
Full picture →Most working residents leave Onalaska for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Houston (11%), Livingston (11%) and Huntsville (5%). Half commute less than 47 miles.
Health in Onalaska
Health Grade D
Healthier than 9% of U.S. towns on seven CDC estimates.
Compared with Texas
of 26 measures CDC estimates. The other 7 are too close to call.
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Natural hazards in Onalaska
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 73% of U.S. communities.
Climate in Onalaska
Full climate →Onalaska has mild winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 94°, a January night drops to 40°.
Schools in Onalaska
All Onalaska schools →School Grade A-
The public schools Onalaska’s kids attend outperform 83% of Texas’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results, graded within TX. Ratings are from neighbors.
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