The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ajo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ajo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Ajo is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.36 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small town, Ajo doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Ajo is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.18% of adults in Ajo have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ajo in 2022 was $30,340, 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 $121,360 for a family of four. However, Ajo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ajo is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ajo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ajo residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Ajo also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.23% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ajo include English, German, Irish, French, and Belizean.
The most common language spoken in Ajo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
