Ajo, AZ Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Population (total): Population in 2010: 3,304.

Population (male): 1,647

Population (female): 1,657

Median Age: 48.8 years

Cost of Living: March 2019 cost of living index in Ajo: 89.5 (less than average, U.S. average is 100)

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 28.1%

Poverty (breakdown): (15.1% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 32.7% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 57.6% for American Indian residents, 18.2% for two or more races residents)

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Arizona and other state lists, there were 14 registered sex offenders living in Ajo, Arizona as of January 15, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Ajo is 267 to 1.>

Elevation: 1757 feet

Land Area: 28.1 square miles.

Population Density:

Zip Codes: 85321

Races:
      Hispanic - 1,607 - 42.7%
      White alone - 1,360 - 36.1%
      American Indian alone - 645 - 17.1%
      Asian alone - 161 - 4.3%
      Two or more races - 65 - 1.7%
      Black alone - 11 - 0.3%

With the advent of new recovery methods for low-grade ore, Ajo boomed. In 1911, Col. John Campbell Greenway, a Rough Rider and star Yale athlete, bought the New Cornelia mine from John Boddie. He became general manager of the Calumet and the Arizona mining company and expanded it on a grand scale. The Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad was built from Gila Bend to serve the mining industry and was in service from 1916 to 1985. In 1921, Phelps Dodge, the nation's largest copper company, bought New Cornelia and the mine became the New Cornelia Branch of Phelps Dodge, managed by Michael Curley. For several decades more than 1,000 employees worked for Phelps Dodge in the open pit mine. In 1983 union-affiliated mine employees went on strike. The mine continued with non-union labor for a short while before stopping production in 1985.

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Office of Drug alcohol Policy Control (https://www.transportation.gov/odapc)

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Local Area Info: Ajo, Arizona

Ajo (/???ho?/ AH-hoh; O'odham: Moik Wahia or O'odham: ?O?oho) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, Arizona, United States. The population was 3,304 at the 2010 census. Ajo is located on State Route 85 just 43 miles (69 km) from the Mexican border. It is the closest community to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Ajo is the Spanish word for garlic (Spanish pronunciation: [?axo]). The Spanish may have named the place using the familiar word in place of the similar-sounding O'odham word for paint (o?oho). The Tohono O'odham people obtained red paint pigments from the area.

Native Americans, Spaniards, and Americans have all extracted mineral wealth from Ajo's abundant ore deposits. In the early nineteenth century, there was a Spanish mine nicknamed "Old Bat Hole" that was abandoned due to Indian raids. Tom Childs, Sr., found the deserted mine complete with a 60-foot (18 m) shaft, mesquite ladders, and rawhide buckets in 1847. He did not stay long at that time, because he was on his way to the silver mines near Magdalena de Kino, Sonora.

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Population (total): Population in 2010: 3,304.

Population (male): 1,647

Population (female): 1,657

Median Age: 48.8 years

Cost of Living: March 2019 cost of living index in Ajo: 89.5 (less than average, U.S. average is 100)

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 28.1%

Poverty (breakdown): (15.1% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 32.7% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 57.6% for American Indian residents, 18.2% for two or more races residents)

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Arizona and other state lists, there were 14 registered sex offenders living in Ajo, Arizona as of January 15, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Ajo is 267 to 1.>

Elevation: 1757 feet

Land Area: 28.1 square miles.

Population Density:

Zip Codes: 85321

Races:
      Hispanic - 1,607 - 42.7%
      White alone - 1,360 - 36.1%
      American Indian alone - 645 - 17.1%
      Asian alone - 161 - 4.3%
      Two or more races - 65 - 1.7%
      Black alone - 11 - 0.3%

With the advent of new recovery methods for low-grade ore, Ajo boomed. In 1911, Col. John Campbell Greenway, a Rough Rider and star Yale athlete, bought the New Cornelia mine from John Boddie. He became general manager of the Calumet and the Arizona mining company and expanded it on a grand scale. The Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad was built from Gila Bend to serve the mining industry and was in service from 1916 to 1985. In 1921, Phelps Dodge, the nation's largest copper company, bought New Cornelia and the mine became the New Cornelia Branch of Phelps Dodge, managed by Michael Curley. For several decades more than 1,000 employees worked for Phelps Dodge in the open pit mine. In 1983 union-affiliated mine employees went on strike. The mine continued with non-union labor for a short while before stopping production in 1985.