Town · Pinal County, Arizona

Kearny, Arizona

Kearny is a town in Pinal County, Arizona, part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro area. It has 2,109 residents. Kearny, Arizona has a quality-of-life score of 14 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,436 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arizona it ranks #138 of 207 cities and towns. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), preventable hospital stays (low) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low). It ranks worst on restaurants and bars (low), hot days (high) and grocery stores (low).

14Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,436 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arizona: #138 of 207 in AZ
Population: 2,109 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 782.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 0437200

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.

Safety44#8,754/15,637
Economy40#9,451/15,631
Housing67#4,912/14,977
Health41#9,221/15,609
Healthcare21#12,379/15,650
Environment22#12,040/15,453
Education4#14,949/15,649
Infrastructure22#12,285/15,650
Community12#13,730/15,651
Leisure & amenities0#15,609/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Kearny, Arizona ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pinal 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

Comfortable days · high33.4%
91/100Arizona 31.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPinal County value
Preventable hospital stays · low2,004 /100k
85/100Arizona 2,070 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePinal County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.4 µg/m³
83/100Arizona 6.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPinal County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.56%
83/100Arizona 0.48%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Child care cost burden · low23.9%
81/100Arizona 29.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePinal County value
Property crime rate · low694 /100k
76/100Arizona 1,514 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationPinal County value

Weaknesses

Restaurants and bars · low2.4 /10k
1/100Arizona 6.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPinal County value
Hot days · high155 days
1/100Arizona 96 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPinal County value
Grocery stores · low0.5 /10k
2/100Arizona 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPinal County value
Social associations · low3.5 /10k
2/100Arizona 5.7 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePinal County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.1 /10k
3/100Arizona 4.2 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPinal County value
High ozone days · high18 days
3/100Arizona 27 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPinal County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,250 (2015-2019) → 2,109 (2020-2024)
−6.3%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
54.5% (2015-2019) → 86.4% (2020-2024)
+32 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.6× (2015-2019) → 2.7× (2020-2024)
+62%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
32.9% (2015-2019) → 20.7% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeWorsening
18.0 min (2015-2019) → 24.5 min (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Rent as share of incomeImproving
25.5% (2015-2019) → 19.6% (2020-2024)
−5.9 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, Kearny, Arizona improved on 1 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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

Broadband+32 points54.5% → 86.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Kearny, Arizona between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.0 min2015-2019	24.5 min2020-2024	+6.4 min	Within the margin of error	6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.3%2015-2019	9.8%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Broadband subscriptions	54.5%2015-2019	86.4%2020-2024	+32 points	Improved	98%
Effective property tax rate	0.68%2015-2019	0.56%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	38%
High school diploma or higher	86.9%2015-2019	91.8%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3872015-2019	0.4672020-2024	+0.080	Within the margin of error	8%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	25.5%2015-2019	19.6%2020-2024	−5.9 points	Within the margin of error	85%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15075 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 Kearny, Arizona five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Kearny, 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, Kearny, Arizona itself moved −4.4 points in standing on average over the same 7 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

2,109 residents (±447)

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

832 households (±165)

Kearny, Arizona
Arizona share

Under $25k21%†175
$25k–50k30%†247
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

832 households (±165)

Kearny, Arizona
Arizona share

Own82%683
Rent18%†149

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (−13.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

777 workers (±218)

Kearny, Arizona
Arizona share

Drive alone81%†633
Carpool9.0%†70
Public transit

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 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, 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 Pinal County, the county holding most of Kearny's residents.

Pinal County has 4,723 employer establishments, 97.1 for every 10,000 residents (0.39× the US rate of 248; 0.44× Arizona's), with 63,258 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,659. The Census Bureau also counts 31,956 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 4,723; 31,956 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 97.1; US 248 · Arizona 219
Paid employees: 63,258
Average annual pay: $50,659; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	444	9.1	0.59×Fewer than typical	3,819	$59,611	2,280
Ambulatory health care services	424	8.7	0.42×Fewer than typical	3,625	$71,456	1,541
Restaurants and other eating places	354	7.3	0.40×Fewer than typical	7,981	$21,510	133
Lessors of real estate	292	6	0.49×Fewer than typical	1,125	$32,610	2,138
Building equipment contractors	200	4.1	0.68×Fewer than typical	860	$55,701	584
Limited-service restaurants	194	4	0.50×Fewer than typical	4,818	$20,652	53
Services to buildings and dwellings	184	3.8	0.56×Fewer than typical	837	$39,786	1,973
Offices of other health practitioners	138	2.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	785	$44,729	585
Construction of buildings	136	2.8	0.37×Fewer than typical	650	$59,291	925
Real estate agents and brokers	136	2.8	0.57×Fewer than typical	164	$47,293	1,057
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	133	2.7	0.83×About typical	499	$55,747	327
Truck transportation	129	2.7	0.52×Fewer than typical	694	$67,288	699

Rank places for an industry Open Pinal County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 486,554 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 $503 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Kearny, Arizona: $0.24 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $503
Per resident: $0.24; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; 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

Environmental Protection Agency$503100%

Top recipients

EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC., PBC$503100%

Spending by fiscal year

431.8FY2022
5.4KFY2024
502.8FY2026

What was bought

Facilities & utilities$503100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$503100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Kearny, Arizona, so they do not add up across cities.

Kearny, Arizona's figures are part of those of Pinal County, AZ ($56.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Pinal 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.

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

House

County

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

Pinal County30100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ54

Other cities and towns in Pinal 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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