85128Coolidge, Arizona

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 85128.

51out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 20% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5738th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured29
GrowthTop 7% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured77
Housing affordability3617th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured77
Climate6365th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured55
Physical resilience5143rd of 6,709 ZIP areas measured29
Access4151st of 6,791 ZIP areas measured90
Economic stability5264th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured42
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.7% and the Opportunity signal places 85128 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
19,487
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$65,477
Bottom 40% nationally
Density
117/sq mi
166.7 sq mi of land
Median age
32.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Coolidge
Arizona
Metro area
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
Nearest major airport
IWA
25 mi · Mesa Gateway
Median home value
$249,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.7% is lower than 12% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

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

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$8,287$65,477Bottom 40%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,801$28,555Bottom 22%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate21.2%Top 16%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.2 minBottom 47%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher13.4%Bottom 20%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment210,405Top 22%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.5%Top 11%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.7%Bottom 5%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force223,109Top 22%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation62.3%Top 44%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$69,630Top 41%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$51,380Top 44%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)1.0%Top 5%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate5.7%Top 12%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202465k50k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $65,477 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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Coolidge, AZ, the city containing this ZIP code.

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 →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 5% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,304 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.

Cost of living
104.7

Prices here run about 5% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
23.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,304
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$249,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index104.7Top 30%of 6,0712023
Home price to income3.80Top 32%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.0%Bottom 38%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5156,698Top 23%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$149$1,304Top 30%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,322$249,000Top 42%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.9%Top 18%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.7%Bottom 36%of 33,0282024 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 7% of 5,428 published city profiles

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.

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 ZIP areas.

Units permitted
269
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
16.2
Top 4% nationally
Year over year
−13%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Coolidge, AZ, the city containing this ZIP code.

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, 2.7 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

29 / 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. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say 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 85128 rather than 85128 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 25 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mesa GatewayIWA25 mi10,401 ft
Phoenix Sky Harbor IntlPHX44 mi11,489 ft
ScottsdaleSDL51 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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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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
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)
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)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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.

85128 vs Coolidge

How this ZIP area compares with Coolidge as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

85128
Coolidge
Median household income
$65,477
vs
$67,023
Per capita income
$28,555
vs
$29,535
Population density
117/sq mi
vs
199/sq mi
Median home value
$249,000
vs
$255,400
Median gross rent
$1,304
vs
$1,314
Homeownership rate
74.0%
vs
72.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.4%
vs
14.0%
Poverty rate
21.2%
vs
19.9%
Median age
32.7
vs
33.4

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.