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Sierra Vista, AZ
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Sierra Vista profile


Living in Sierra Vista



Sierra Vista is a medium-sized city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 45,439 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Sierra Vista is the 25th largest community in Arizona.

Sierra Vista is a military town: the armed forces employs 10.56% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Public Service and Healthcare are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 19.55% and 14.95% of the civilian workforce respectively.

Also of interest is that Sierra Vista has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.87% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

One of the benefits of Sierra Vista is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.46 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.

In terms of college education, Sierra Vista is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.80% of adults in Sierra Vista have a college degree.

The per capita income in Sierra Vista in 2022 was $37,671, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,684 for a family of four. However, Sierra Vista contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sierra Vista is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sierra Vista home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sierra Vista residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Sierra Vista also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.59% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sierra Vista include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Sierra Vista is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.