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!) Mayer 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. Mayer has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mayer than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mayer may be for you.
In Mayer, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.44 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Mayer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Mayer is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.49% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mayer in 2022 was $34,018, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,072 for a family of four. However, Mayer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mayer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mayer residents report their race to be White. Mayer also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.20% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mayer include Irish, German, Italian, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Mayer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
