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Sun City, AZ
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Living in Sun City



Sun City is a medium-sized town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 39,931 people and 11 associated neighborhoods, Sun City is the 27th largest community in Arizona.

A relatively large number of people in Sun City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 19.55% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

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!) Sun City 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. Sun City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sun City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sun City may be for you.

Even though Sun City is not a small town, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.

The overall education level of Sun City is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.58% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sun City in 2022 was $40,593, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $162,372 for a family of four. However, Sun City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sun City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sun City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sun City include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Sun City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.