Metro area · Arizona

Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro area

Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ is a metropolitan area of 1 county in Arizona, home to 252,552 residents. Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro area has a quality-of-life score of 66 out of 100 (high), ranking #318 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Arizona it ranks #1 of 11. It ranks best on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low), adult obesity (low) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), home price to income ratio (high) and firearm deaths (high).

66High
Quality-of-life score
#318 of 925 metro and micro areas
Arizona
#1 of 11 in AZ
Population
252,552 (2025)
Land area
8,123 mi²
Density
31.1 /mi²
CBSA code
39150

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 66 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro area

Scores by category

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

  • Safety41#544/924
  • Economy59#384/925
  • Housing42#541/925
  • Health68#294/925
  • Healthcare26#681/923
  • Environment88#113/917
  • Education67#304/925
  • Infrastructure63#343/925
  • Community88#108/925
  • Leisure & amenities51#455/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Prescott Valley-Prescott, 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 Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Prescott Valley-Prescott, 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 Prescott Valley-Prescott, 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. Yavapai CountyCentral county58252,552

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. PrescottPrincipal city47,400
  2. Prescott ValleyPrincipal city49,179

Largest cities and towns

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

  1. Prescott Valley49,179
  2. Prescott47,400
  3. Chino Valley13,602
  4. Cottonwood12,580
  5. Camp Verde12,521
  6. Verde Village11,930
  7. Sedona9,777
  8. Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)6,356
  9. Williamson6,310
  10. Lake Montezuma4,929
  11. Paulden4,795
  12. Clarkdale4,758
  13. Dewey-Humboldt4,501
  14. Cordes Lakes3,808
  15. Cornville3,618
  16. Bagdad2,814
  17. Black Canyon City2,181
  18. Spring Valley1,673
  19. Congress1,491
  20. Wilhoit1,101
  21. Mayer791
  22. Peeples Valley746
  23. Yarnell638
  24. Seligman549

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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