Sierra Vista is a medium-sized city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 44,431 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Sierra Vista is the 25th largest community in Arizona.
Sierra Vista is a military town: the armed forces employs 12.28% 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 18.55% and 14.65% 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 10.66% 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.
One of the benefits of Sierra Vista is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.37 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.
The population of Sierra Vista is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 35.01% of adults in Sierra Vista have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sierra Vista in 2022 was $38,109, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,436 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 22.34% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sierra Vista include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Sierra Vista is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.