The east Mesa retirement community is the least diverse census tract in Arizona, the latest U.S. census figures for Arizona show. There are 3,263 people living in Census Tract 4226.18, and 3,228 are Anglo, according to the Census Bureau. The census reports only 35 minorities. Many of the yards look the same and so do the residents. If a White person walks down the street in the area near Sossaman and Guadalupe roads, there's a 98.9 percent chance of running into another White person, according to those figures.
Residents talk about the golf and tennis or the woodcarving or stained-glass making.
It doesn't matter what race, color, creed you are, as far as I'm concerned. I don't even notice. I consider them all retirees. And she said she wouldn't object if more people of different races and ethnic backgrounds moved in. She was drawn to Sunland Village East for many reasons.