City · Pinal County, Arizona

Maricopa, Arizona

Maricopa is a city in Pinal County, Arizona, part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro area. It has 67,163 residents. Maricopa, Arizona has a quality-of-life score of 25 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,776 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Arizona it ranks #92 of 207 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), broadband subscriptions (high) and new homes permitted (high). It ranks worst on restaurants and bars (low), hot days (high) and grocery stores (low).

25Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,776 of 15,651 cities and towns
Arizona: #92 of 207 in AZ
Population: 67,163 (2020-2024)
Land area: 42 mi²
Density: 1,580.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 0444410

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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
Economy76#3,713/15,631
Housing50#7,515/14,977
Health49#7,895/15,609
Healthcare17#13,021/15,650
Environment22#12,040/15,453
Education14#13,463/15,649
Infrastructure61#6,103/15,650
Community12#13,763/15,651
Leisure & amenities0#15,609/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Maricopa, 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

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.345
97/100Arizona 0.464United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Broadband subscriptions · high97.2%
94/100Arizona 91.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
New homes permitted · high13.3 /1k
92/100Arizona 6.3 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
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
Child poverty rate · low8.5%
85/100Arizona 15.2%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001

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
Average commute time · high36.6 min
3/100Arizona 25.4 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.1 /10k
3/100Arizona 4.2 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPinal County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
48,629 (2015-2019) → 67,163 (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
32.3 /1k (2021) → 13.3 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−59%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.7× (2015-2019) → 3.9× (2020-2024)
+44%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Median household incomeImproving
$74,515 (2015-2019) → $96,391 (2020-2024)
+29%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
93.4% (2015-2019) → 97.2% (2020-2024)
+3.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
8.1% (2015-2019) → 11.4% (2020-2024)
+3.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Maricopa, Arizona improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved2

Household income+29%$74,515 → $96,391
Broadband+3.8 points93.4% → 97.2%

Declined2

Price / income+1.2×2.7× → 3.9×
Uninsured+3.3 points8.1% → 11.4%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Maricopa, Arizona between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	37.3 min2015-2019	36.6 min2020-2024	−0.7 min	Within the margin of error	56%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.7%2015-2019	23.6%2020-2024	−1.1 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Broadband subscriptions	93.4%2015-2019	97.2%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Improved	25%
Child poverty rate	10.8%2015-2019	8.5%2020-2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Effective property tax rate	0.79%2015-2019	0.59%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	58%
High school diploma or higher	91.9%2015-2019	91.7%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	31%
Home price to income ratio	2.7×2015-2019	3.9×2020-2024	+1.2×	Declined	16%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3612015-2019	0.3452020-2024	−0.016	Within the margin of error	65%
Median household income	$74,5152015-2019	$96,3912020-2024	+29%	Improved	54%
Poverty rate	9.0%2015-2019	7.4%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Rent as share of income	29.9%2015-2019	31.0%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Rent-burdened households	49.9%2015-2019	52.4%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Unemployment rate	3.9%2015-2019	5.0%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.1%2015-2019	11.4%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Declined	17%

“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 Maricopa, Arizona five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Maricopa, 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, Maricopa, Arizona itself moved −3.1 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

67,163 residents (±71)

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

21,038 households (±763)

Maricopa, Arizona
Arizona share

Under $25k5.9%1,239
$25k–50k11%2,245
$50k–75k18%3,744

Homes

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

Owners and renters

21,038 households (±763)

Maricopa, Arizona
Arizona share

Own84%17,583
Rent16%3,455

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+4.0 points).

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

31,201 workers (±1,299)

Maricopa, Arizona
Arizona share

Drive alone63%19,546
Carpool12%3,754
Public transit0.2%†72

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 Maricopa'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 $258.8K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Maricopa, Arizona: $3.85 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $258.8K; −1.5% vs FY2025
Per resident: $3.85; US $1,994
Sole-source: 5.9%; US 30%
Single offer: 41%; 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

Agricultural Research Service$159.9K62%
Agricultural Marketing Service$53.8K21%
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$28.5K11%
Food Safety and Inspection Service$11.4K4.4%
Forest Service$3,5831.4%
Bureau of Land Management$1,5720.6%

Top recipients

HICKMANS EGG RANCH INC$53.8K21%
SAMYAK SOLUTIONS, INC.$48.3K19%
THERMO ELECTRON NORTH AMERICA LLC$47.4K18%
EVERY LITTLE STEP THERAPY LLC$28.5K11%
WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION$15.6K6.0%

Spending by fiscal year

398.7KFY2017
428.8KFY2018
281.8KFY2019
626.8KFY2020
430.1KFY2021
398.8KFY2022
331.7KFY2023
287.8K

Top industries (NAICS)

Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$108.6K42%
Other food manufacturing · 3119$53.8K21%
Offices of other health practitioners · 6213$28.5K11%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$15.5K6.0%
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$14K5.4%

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 Maricopa, Arizona, so they do not add up across cities.

Maricopa, Arizona's figures are part of those of Pinal County, AZ ($56.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.5% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Maricopa 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.

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

House

Senate

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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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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