Superior is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 2,492 people and just one neighborhood, Superior is the 117th largest community in Arizona.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Superior is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Superior is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Superior who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (10.60%), management occupations (8.96%), and maintenance occupations (8.41%).
Also of interest is that Superior 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 Superior telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.23% 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!) Superior 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. Superior has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Superior than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Superior may be for you.
In Superior, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.33 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Superior does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Superior is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.04% of adults 25 and older in Superior have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Superior in 2022 was $27,509, which is middle income relative to Arizona, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,036 for a family of four. However, Superior contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Superior is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Superior home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Superior, accounting for 60.02% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Superior residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Superior include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Superior is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 53.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 Superior are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.6% of U.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, 36.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.6%), and 19.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 65.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Chinese.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Superior, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (53.7%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (3.7%), and residents who report German roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (72.5%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.