Census-designated place · Mohave County, Arizona

Fort Mohave, Arizona

Fort Mohave is a census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, part of the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro area. It has 15,715 residents. Fort Mohave, Arizona has a quality-of-life score of 16 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,102 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arizona it ranks #129 of 207 cities and towns. It ranks best on median Air Quality Index (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low) and rent-burdened households (low). It ranks worst on injury deaths (high), suicide rate (high) and food environment index (low).

16Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,102 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arizona: #129 of 207 in AZ
Population: 15,715 (2020-2024)
Land area: 17 mi²
Density: 941.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 0424895

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety18#12,784/15,637
Economy24#11,869/15,631
Housing74#3,942/14,977
Health20#12,443/15,609
Healthcare11#13,852/15,650
Environment79#3,270/15,453
Education5#14,928/15,649
Infrastructure31#10,875/15,650
Community16#13,131/15,651
Leisure & amenities15#13,233/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Fort Mohave, Arizona ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Mohave County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Median Air Quality Index · low17
98/100Arizona 642025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMohave County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low4.7 µg/m³
97/100Arizona 6.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMohave County value
Rent-burdened households · low40.8%
92/100Arizona 51.4%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Preventable hospital stays · low1,885 /100k
87/100Arizona 2,070 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMohave County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.59%
80/100Arizona 0.48%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Loneliness · low33.1%
77/100Arizona 32.7%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Injury deaths · high159 /100k
2/100Arizona 106 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMohave County value
Suicide rate · high31.7 /100k
3/100Arizona 20.8 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMohave County value
Food environment index · low6.0
4/100Arizona 6.8United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMohave County value
Drug overdose deaths · high37.6 /100k
4/100Arizona 35.9 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMohave County value
Firearm deaths · high26.4 /100k
4/100Arizona 18.1 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMohave County value
Job growth · low-3.2%
6/100Arizona -0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMohave County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.2× (2015-2019) → 4.5× (2020-2024)
+42%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
48.8% (2015-2019) → 40.8% (2020-2024)
−8.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$50,931 (2015-2019) → $64,815 (2020-2024)
+27%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
17.1% (2015-2019) → 13.3% (2020-2024)
−3.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
12.5% (2015-2019) → 10.8% (2020-2024)
−1.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
29.5% (2015-2019) → 27.9% (2020-2024)
−1.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Fort Mohave, Arizona improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Household income+27%$50,931 → $64,815

Declined1

Price / income+1.3×3.2× → 4.5×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Fort Mohave, Arizona between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.1 min2015-2019	20.9 min2020-2024	−0.2 min	Within the margin of error	50%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.5%2015-2019	10.8%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Broadband subscriptions	88.2%2015-2019	89.4%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Child poverty rate	17.1%2015-2019	13.3%2020-2024	−3.8 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Effective property tax rate	0.68%2015-2019	0.59%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%
High school diploma or higher	87.9%2015-2019	88.1%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Home price to income ratio	3.2×2015-2019	4.5×2020-2024	+1.3×	Declined	12%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4302015-2019	0.4192020-2024	−0.010	Within the margin of error	60%
Median household income	$50,9312015-2019	$64,8152020-2024	+27%	Improved	49%
Poverty rate	12.4%2015-2019	11.8%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Rent as share of income	29.5%2015-2019	27.9%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Rent-burdened households	48.8%2015-2019	40.8%2020-2024	−8.1 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Unemployment rate	8.6%2015-2019	9.7%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.5%2015-2019	11.1%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	51%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Fort Mohave, Arizona five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Fort Mohave, Arizona in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Fort Mohave, Arizona itself moved −1.1 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

15,715 residents (±1,150)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

7,175 households (±462)

Fort Mohave, Arizona
Arizona share

Under $25k16%1,167
$25k–50k25%1,778
$50k–75k19%1,332

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

7,175 households (±462)

Fort Mohave, Arizona
Arizona share

Own86%6,153
Rent14%1,022

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+11.1 points).

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

5,168 workers (±595)

Fort Mohave, Arizona
Arizona share

Drive alone78%4,020
Carpool13%†646
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Mohave County, the county holding most of Fort Mohave's residents.

Mohave County has 4,305 employer establishments, 193 for every 10,000 residents (0.78× the US rate of 248; 0.88× Arizona's), with 48,246 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,037. The Census Bureau also counts 14,530 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 4,305; 14,530 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 193; US 248 · Arizona 219
Paid employees: 48,246
Average annual pay: $45,037; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Mohave County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	476	21.3	1.38×More than typical	3,265	$51,153	1,195
Ambulatory health care services	407	18.2	0.87×About typical	4,123	$58,760	534
Restaurants and other eating places	346	15.5	0.84×About typical	6,301	$24,113	70
Lessors of real estate	253	11.3	0.92×About typical	436	$46,252	1,879
Construction of buildings	172	7.7	1.02×About typical	818	$53,241	654
Building equipment contractors	171	7.6	1.27×More than typical	1,144	$58,317	229
Full-service restaurants	155	6.9	0.90×About typical	3,039	$26,655	27
Limited-service restaurants	147	6.6	0.82×About typical	2,737	$21,807	29
Offices of physicians	136	6.1	0.94×About typical	1,010	$78,133	84
Real estate agents and brokers	136	6.1	1.25×About typical	147	$61,347	795
Services to buildings and dwellings	136	6.1	0.90×About typical	737	$35,445	1,089
Automotive repair and maintenance	135	6	1.20×About typical	773	$40,508	387

Rank places for an industry Open Mohave County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 223,586 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $130K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Fort Mohave, Arizona: $8.27 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $130K; +9% vs FY2025
Per resident: $8.27; US $1,995
Sole-source: 14%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Bureau of Reclamation$99.9K77%
Department of Veterans Affairs$30K23%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

55.3KFY2017
15.3KFY2018
39.2KFY2019
42.4KFY2021
588.7KFY2022
408.3KFY2023
6.5KFY2024
119.2KFY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Fort Mohave, Arizona, so they do not add up across cities.

Fort Mohave, Arizona's figures are part of those of Mohave County, AZ ($9M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.5% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Fort Mohave is mostly in Mohave County.

See federal money in Mohave County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Fort Mohave, Arizona is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Mohave County21100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ17

Other cities and towns in Mohave County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Strengths · Weaknesses

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