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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 44,710 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Sierra Vista is the 25th largest community in Arizona.

Sierra Vista is a military town: the armed forces employs 11.45% 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 15.57% and 15.35% 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.

A relatively large number of people in Sierra Vista telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.35% 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.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Sierra Vista spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.27 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

The citizens of Sierra Vista are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.99% of adults in Sierra Vista have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sierra Vista in 2022 was $37,821, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $151,284 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 23.50% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sierra Vista include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.

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