Another notable thing is that Quartzsite is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
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, Quartzsite has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Quartzsite a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.57 minutes getting to work every day.
Quartzsite is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Quartzsite is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.19% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Quartzsite in 2022 was $27,508, 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 $110,032 for a family of four. However, Quartzsite contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Quartzsite also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.63% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Quartzsite is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Quartzsite home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Quartzsite residents report their race to be White. Quartzsite also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.12% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Quartzsite include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Danish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Quartzsite's cultural character, accounting for 17.84% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Quartzsite is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
