Eloy is a medium-sized city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 19,199 people and four associated neighborhoods, Eloy is the 43rd largest community in Arizona. Eloy has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Eloy, where the median household income is $55,736.00.Eloy is a blue-collar town, with 43.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Eloy is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eloy who work in maintenance occupations (9.76%), office and administrative support (7.39%), and management occupations (6.93%). A relatively large number of people in Eloy telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.72% 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 city 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!) Eloy 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. Eloy has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Eloy than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Eloy may be for you. Being a small city, Eloy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Eloy with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.88% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Eloy in 2022 was $20,362, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $81,448 for a family of four. However, Eloy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Eloy is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eloy 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 Eloy, accounting for 46.18% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Eloy residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Eloy include German, European, Italian, English, and Irish. In addition, Eloy has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.52%). The most common language spoken in Eloy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
