Metro area · Arizona

Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro area

Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ is a metropolitan area of 1 county in Arizona, home to 228,102 residents. Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro area has a quality-of-life score of 17 out of 100 (very low), ranking #770 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Arizona it ranks #10 of 11. It ranks best on median Air Quality Index (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on injury deaths (high), suicide rate (high) and bachelor's degree or higher (low).

17Very low
Quality-of-life score
#770 of 925 metro and micro areas
Arizona
#10 of 11 in AZ
Population
228,102 (2025)
Land area
13,332 mi²
Density
17.1 /mi²
CBSA code
29420

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety25#693/924
  • Economy8#847/925
  • Housing26#681/925
  • Health25#696/925
  • Healthcare10#832/923
  • Environment90#97/917
  • Education13#805/925
  • Infrastructure48#481/925
  • Community26#681/925
  • Leisure & amenities16#781/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Mohave CountyCentral county22228,102

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. KingmanPrincipal city34,375
  2. Lake Havasu CityPrincipal city58,359

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Lake Havasu City58,359
  2. Bullhead City42,496
  3. Kingman34,375
  4. Fort Mohave15,715
  5. New Kingman-Butler13,993
  6. Golden Valley8,567
  7. Desert Hills2,944
  8. Colorado City2,702
  9. Mohave Valley2,555
  10. Valle Vista2,369
  11. Centennial Park1,839
  12. Beaver Dam1,624
  13. Golden Shores1,555
  14. Meadview1,517
  15. Scenic1,379
  16. Dolan Springs1,341
  17. Peach Springs1,234
  18. Willow Valley981
  19. Arizona Village713
  20. So-Hi648
  21. Cane Beds637
  22. Walnut Creek556
  23. Mesquite Creek548
  24. Lazy Y U481

Other metro and micro areas in Arizona

Areas based in Arizona, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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