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SheetAZ-APACHE-JUNCTION-AZ · Apache Junction, AZ 39,746 pop · income 33rd pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Apache Junction
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Apache Junction on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bullhead City · lowest
47,717
Bullhead City · lowest
47,717 median HH income
32.5% of the leader · rank #1
Woonsocket · near
58,614
Woonsocket · near
58,614 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #2
Apache Juncti… · this city
58,619
Apache Juncti… · this city
58,619 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #3
Castile · near
58,625
Castile · near
58,625 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #4
DuBois · near
58,626
DuBois · near
58,626 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #5
Clintondale · near
58,627
Clintondale · near
58,627 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #6
Kailua CDP (H… · highest
146,615
Kailua CDP (H… · highest
146,615 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Apache Junction on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 39,746.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Apache Junction - the verdict
Apache Junction ranks in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 34th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
42nd
percentile, home value
64th
percentile, median rent
34th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Apache Junction, AZ
Apache Junction is a small city in Arizona, home to 39,746 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Apache Junction report a median income of $58,619 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.3%. Typical homes in Apache Junction are valued around $196,700, and the median resident age is 52.6 years. 17.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 45.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1,140 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 956% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1938.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 71.9°F with 12.6 inches of precipitation per year.
Arizona tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Arizona scores 100.7 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,419 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Arizona's average monthly utility costs around $215 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 84.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Apache Junction's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from population change to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Apache Junction, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Apache Junction growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +6,946 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +17.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,140 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
What does the education layer cover for Apache Junction?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 17.2% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
How far does income reach against housing in Apache Junction?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Apache Junction?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Arizona, the closest population matches are Sun (38,018 residents, $52,111 income); Bullhead City (42,193 residents, $47,717 income); San Luis (35,998 residents, $57,364 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Kailua CDP (Honolulu County), HI (39,762 residents); Fort Lee, NJ (39,818 residents); DeLand, FL (39,832 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Apache Junction?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1938.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 15% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
1938.4
Violent rate
426.3
Property rate
1512.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Apache Junction?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Drive alone
73.9%
Work from home
12.9%
Public transit
0.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 15,548 workers age 16+.
What physical conditions frame life in Apache Junction?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 71.9°F, with 12.6 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Arizona is 84.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
84.5
Annual precipitation
12.6 in
Mean temperature
71.9°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Below median income · poverty 8.3% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.7 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
F
City profile score · Apache Junction, AZ
33/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Poverty rate D
8.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
100.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income F
$58,619
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
426 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Apache Junction profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.3%
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $58,619
Bachelor's+ share: 26/100 (F) · 17.2%
Violent crime: 21/100 (F) · 426 /100k
Where Apache Junction sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Apache Junction's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Apache Junction highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Apache Junction, AZ (this city): home $196,700, crime 1,938/100k
Fort Lee, NJ : home $422,200, crime 1,231/100k
Hutchinson, KS : home $122,600, crime 2,597/100k
Duncanville, TX : home $239,200, crime 2,586/100k
Bullhead City, AZ : home $196,900, crime 2,648/100k
San Luis, AZ : home $197,400, crime 637/100k
El Mirage, AZ : home $282,000, crime 1,639/100k
Sahuarita, AZ : home $341,800, crime 1,069/100k
Sierra Vista, AZ : home $239,000, crime 1,881/100k
How does Apache Junction compare to other US cities?
Apache Junction measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income33% higher than other cities
Home value42% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
Safety34% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Arizona, Apache Junction ranks #38 of 61 Arizona cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Apache Junction against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Arizona only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Arizona-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Apache Junction near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Apache Junction ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Apache Junction only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#152 of 333
54th percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#163 of 327
50th percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#207 of 393
47th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#177 of 394
54th percentile in Arizona
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Arizona only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 34th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Apache Junction's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Apache Junction's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Apache Junction's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$196,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,366 of 15,516
More affordable than 46% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,346 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.4×, Apache Junction sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,366 of 15,516 and #1,346 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$58,619Apache Junction, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Apache Junction, AZ median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Apache Junction, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)45.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
39,746
Median Income
$58,619
Median Home Value
$196,700
Median Age
52.6
Poverty Rate
8.3%
Labor force participation
45.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1938.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
426.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1512.1
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
71.9°F
Annual Precipitation
12.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Apache Junction's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
38,726 residents
2021
39,715 residents
2022
40,217 residents
2023
40,799 residents
2024
43,175 residents
2025
45,672 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,140
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,064
detached homes
Multifamily
76
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
28.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
108
108
0
$15.5M
2020
153
131
22
$21.2M
2021
254
238
16
$63.2M
2022
175
101
74
$41.1M
2023
1,039
943
96
$297.2M
2024
1,140
1,064
76
$346.5M
Permit volume increased 956% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.9%
Carpool
8.0%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
12.9%
Other
3.3%
Based on 15,548 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Arizona statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $215
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Arizona at $215 (electricity about $131 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Arizona statewide averages, not a meter reading for Apache Junction. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Arizona's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.7 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Apache Junction is $1,419/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Arizona statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 84.5 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Arizona statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Apache Junction sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Apache Junction compares to similar-size Arizona cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.