Maricopa County

The median income of households in Maricopa County, Arizona was $89,300. An estimated 4.3% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 14.1% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 79.5% of households received earnings. An estimated 29.2% of households received Social Security and an estimated 23.7 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $26,301. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2020-2024, 11 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 14.4% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 9.7% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 10.1% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2020-2024, 8.6 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 56.2% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 34.6% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 34.6% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Maricopa County, Arizona in 2020-2024, 89.4% had health insurance coverage and 10.6% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 66.6% and public coverage was 33.4%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 8.4%.

In 2020-2024, Maricopa County, Arizona had a total population of 4,559,748 - 2,291,731 (50.3%) females and 2,268,017 (49.7%) males. The median age was 37.6 years. An estimated 22.5% of the population was under 18 years, 34.6% was 19 to 44 years, 24% was 45 to 64 years, and 16.3 % was 65 years and older.

In 2020-2024, there were 1,730,696 households in Maricopa County, Arizona. The average household size was 2.59 people.

Married-couple households made up 47.1% of the households in Maricopa County, Arizona while cohabiting couple households made up 8.6% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 25.9% of all households, while 18.5% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 12.2% of households were male householders living alone, and 14.3% were female householders living alone, for a total of 26.5% of all households.

In Maricopa County, Arizona, 30.3% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 30.3% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2020-2024, an estimated 85.5% of the people living in Maricopa County, Arizona were U.S. natives. 38.4% of the Maricopa County, Arizona population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 14.5% of Maricopa County, Arizona residents in 2020-2024 were foreign-born. 46.4% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 71.6 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Maricopa County, Arizona come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2020-2024 for Maricopa County, Arizona.

Among people at least five years old living in Maricopa County, Arizona in 2020-2024, 26 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 19.4% of people at least five years old; 8.3% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2020-2024, 85.9 % of the people at least one year old living in Maricopa County, Arizona were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2020-2024, 89.8 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 36.7% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 10.3% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Maricopa County, Arizona was 1,089,886 in 2020-2024. Nursery school enrollment was 48,954 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 761,180. College or graduate school enrollment was 279,752.

In Maricopa County, Arizona, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2020-2024, 12.2 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 4.8% of people under 18 years old, to 10% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 30.6% of those 65 and over.

In Maricopa County, Arizona, 61.9 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 34.9% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 82.5% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 11.6% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 5.7 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2020-2024, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Maricopa County, Arizona worked in the following industries:

An estimated 64.8% of Maricopa County, Arizona workers drove to work alone in 2020-2024, and 9.5% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 26 minutes to get to work.

In 2020-2024, Maricopa County, Arizona had a total of 1,884,334 housing units. Of these housing units, 69.8% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 25.5% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 4.6% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

15.4% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 0.9% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Maricopa County, Arizona was 5.4 rooms, and of these housing units 61% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2020-2024, Maricopa County, Arizona had 1,730,696 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 153,638 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 65.2% while renters occupied 34.8%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.68 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.43.

5.8% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 3.9% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 5.1% and another 22.1% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Maricopa County, Arizona:

In 2020-2024, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Maricopa County, Arizona was $452,800.

Of the owner-occupied households, 66.8 % had a mortgage. 33.2% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $1,931 and for owners without a mortgage it was $575.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Maricopa County, Arizona was $1,708. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.