Somerton sits 13.4 miles south of downtown Yuma on US-95, about 18 minutes door to door, which makes it the closest of our satellite areas after the Foothills. About 14,900 people live here, and at 95.8 percent Hispanic it has the highest Hispanic share of any incorporated place in this market.
Like San Luis, Somerton is a year-round town rather than a seasonal one. Vacancy runs 3.9 percent across 5,168 housing units, and the local economy is built around agriculture -- the same fields that make Yuma County the source of 90 percent of the leafy vegetables grown in the United States from November through March. That means the cleaning work here is steady residential work: recurring house cleaning for working households, deep cleans a few times a year, and move-in and move-out cleans around leases and sales.
Somerton also sits next to the Cocopah Indian Reservation, and it is the natural middle stop on our southern route, 16 minutes from San Luis in one direction and 18 minutes from Yuma in the other. Everything we do in Yuma we do here, on the same 42-point checklist, in English or in Spanish, with all supplies and equipment brought to the door.
