Sahuarita, AZ

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Living in Sahuarita, Arizona

Sahuarita is a medium-sized town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 34,134 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Sahuarita is the 31st largest community in Arizona. Sahuarita 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 Sahuarita, where the median household income is $85,247.00.

Sahuarita is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sahuarita is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sahuarita who work in office and administrative support (12.72%), management occupations (10.96%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.14%).

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

Because of many things, Sahuarita is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Sahuarita really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sahuarita perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

The citizens of Sahuarita are among the most well-educated in the nation: 42.37% of adults in Sahuarita have a bachelor’s degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor’s degree.

The per capita income in Sahuarita in 2018 was $33,467, which is wealthy relative to Arizona, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,868 for a family of four. However, Sahuarita contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sahuarita is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sahuarita home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sahuarita residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Sahuarita also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.24% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sahuarita include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

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

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