Coolidge, Arizona

Area Profile

16,636 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Coolidge, in Pinal County.

52out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 22% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3585th of 3,904 cities measured32
GrowthTop 8% of 2,973 cities measured77
Housing affordability2270th of 4,223 cities measured78
Climate3957th of 4,223 cities measured55
Physical resilience3199th of 4,182 cities measured30
Access2612th of 4,226 cities measured89
Economic stability3180th of 4,226 cities measured45
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 5.7% and the Opportunity signal places Coolidge in the bottom 8%.

269 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 13% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, heat wave and wildfire.

At a glance

Population
16,636
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$67,023
Top 50% nationally
Density
199/sq mi
83.5 sq mi of land
Median age
33.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Pinal County
Arizona
Metro area
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
Nearest major airport
IWA
27 mi · Mesa Gateway
Median home value
$255,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.7% is lower than 11% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 3.7% over the past year, to 210,405 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$11,078$67,023Top 50%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,081$29,535Bottom 35%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate19.9%Top 24%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.7 minTop 45%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher14.0%Bottom 31%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment210,405Top 28%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.5%Top 12%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.7%Bottom 4%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force223,109Top 28%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation64.3%Top 36%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$69,630Top 46%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$51,380Top 49%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)1.0%Top 5%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate5.7%Top 11%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202467k52k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $67,023 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers81,520$98,610
Retail Salespersons69,060$35,960
Customer Service Representatives68,930$46,410
Home Health and Personal Care Aides57,940$36,930
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand56,420$44,950
Fast Food and Counter Workers54,900$34,540

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Pinal County, AZ, which contains this city.

There are 16.1 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Coolidge High SchoolCoolidge Unified District (4442)75219.8
Coolidge Jr. High SchoolCoolidge Unified District (4442)68818.6
Imagine Coolidge Elementary · charterImagine Coolidge Elementary Inc. (89786)64522.2
West Elementary SchoolCoolidge Unified District (4442)60415.5
Heartland Ranch Elementary SchoolCoolidge Unified District (4442)54514.7
Imagine Prep Coolidge · charterImagine Prep Coolidge Inc. (90034)47224.8
Coolidge Alternative ProgramCoolidge Unified District (4442)12030.0
CAVIT - Central Arizona Valley Institute of TechnologyCentral Arizona Valley Institute of Technology (79385)805.0
Akimel O'Otham Pee Posh (K-2) · charterAkimel O Otham Pee Posh Charter School Inc. (5978)463.5
Akimel O'Otham Pee Posh (3-5) · charterAkimel O'Otham Pee Posh Charter School Inc. (78966)100.7

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Arizona’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,314 takes 24% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.8 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
23.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,314
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$255,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.81Top 30%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate72.8%Bottom 43%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4385,876Top 10%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$155$1,314Top 27%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,809$255,400Top 35%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.5%Top 23%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.8%Bottom 46%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
77/ 100
Top 8% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 46% since 2020, reaching 19,674 in 2024.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 16.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
269
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
16.2
Top 5% nationally
Year over year
−13%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202420k13k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025776147
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−59%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 107°F and January a low of 37°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 8.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 77, in the Moderate band, and about 70 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CASA GRANDE NM, 4.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index111.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation8.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low37°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high107°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100702024 calendar year
Median air quality index77.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing40°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
77
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
111
90th percentile index
Days above 100
70
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

30 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, heat wave and wildfire.

Heat waveElevated
WildfireElevated
Inland floodingElevated
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, hail, earthquake, strong wind, landslide, tornado, avalanche, hurricane, winter weather, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Pinal County records 4.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 19.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 22.9 per 100,000 residents in Pinal County.

Homicide
4.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
19.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
22.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
21.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Pinal County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Coolidge rather than Coolidge itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 27 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mesa GatewayIWA27 mi10,401 ft
Phoenix Sky Harbor IntlPHX45 mi11,489 ft
ScottsdaleSDL53 mi8,249 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
PhoenixMaricopa County1,642,32354vs Coolidge
MesaMaricopa County511,76452vs Coolidge
GilbertMaricopa County280,26257vs Coolidge
ChandlerMaricopa County280,13654vs Coolidge
GlendaleMaricopa County252,83349vs Coolidge
ScottsdaleMaricopa County243,82153vs Coolidge
PeoriaMaricopa County196,90655vs Coolidge
TempeMaricopa County188,06552vs Coolidge
SurpriseMaricopa County154,94858vs Coolidge
San Tan ValleyPinal County109,189vs Coolidge
GoodyearMaricopa County107,64560vs Coolidge
BuckeyeMaricopa County104,92358vs Coolidge

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Coolidge

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
8512819,487$65,47751