86426Fort Mohave, Arizona

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 86426.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity6161st of 6,210 published ZIP areas13
Housing affordabilityTop 49% of 6,685 published ZIP areas81
Climate6712th of 6,789 published ZIP areas51
Physical resilience5652nd of 6,709 published ZIP areas21
AccessTop 32% of 6,791 published ZIP areas97
Economic stability6022nd of 6,742 published ZIP areas32
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 6.9% and the Opportunity signal places 86426 in the bottom 1%.

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

A major airport is 10 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
15,467
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$64,551
Bottom 38% nationally
Density
443/sq mi
34.9 sq mi of land
Median age
60.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Fort Mohave
Arizona
Metro area
Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ
Nearest major airport
IFP
10 mi · Laughlin/Bullhead Intl
Median home value
$294,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 6.9% is lower than 3% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 5.5% over the past year, to 79,966 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,161$64,551Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,536$33,454Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.0%Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute20.1 minBottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher10.3%Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment79,966Top 40%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.5%Bottom 14%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-5.5%Bottom 2%June 2026
Labor force85,866Top 39%June 2026
Labor force participation42.5%Bottom 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$54,860Bottom 6%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$44,230Bottom 5%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)1.7%Top 1%June 2026
Unemployment rate6.9%Top 3%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202467k61k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $64,551 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 — Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Cashiers2,650$32,510
General and Operations Managers2,170$74,050
Retail Salespersons2,130$34,610
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,960$31,100
Stockers and Order Fillers1,350$36,390
Office Clerks, General1,320$41,740

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 Fort Mohave, AZ, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 25.9 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
25.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Desert Star Academy · charterDesert Star Academy (92302)68662.4
Young Scholars Academy · charterYoung Scholars Academy Charter School Corp. (4385)41220.6
Fort Mohave Elementary SchoolMohave Valley Elementary District (4379)40023.5
Camp Mohave Elementary SchoolMohave Valley Elementary District (4379)36221.3
Academy of Building Industries · charterAcademy of Building Industries Inc. (85540)1089.8

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 $1,010 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.6 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
18.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,010
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$294,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.56Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate85.7%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5018,064Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$123$1,010Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$21,804$294,500Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.8%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.4%Top 45%2024 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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 111°F and January a low of 46°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 4.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 19, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEEDLES AP, 17.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND0.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index30.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation4.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low46°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high111°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index19.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
19
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
30
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
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

21 / 100
Physical resilience

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

WildfireHigh
Heat waveModerate
Inland floodingElevated
EarthquakeModerate
Volcanic activityModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, winter weather, strong wind, ice storm, avalanche, landslide, hail, drought, tornado, 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. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Mohave County records 4.7 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 27.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 39.3 per 100,000 residents in Mohave County.

Homicide
4.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
27.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
39.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
33.1
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 Mohave 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 86426 rather than 86426 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 10 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Laughlin/Bullhead IntlIFP10 mi8,501 ft
Lake Havasu CityHII32 mi8,000 ft
Harry Reid IntlLAS81 mi14,835 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)
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)
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.

86426 vs Fort Mohave

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

86426
Fort Mohave
Median household income
$64,551
vs
$64,815
Per capita income
$33,454
vs
$33,933
Population density
443/sq mi
vs
941/sq mi
Median home value
$294,500
vs
$294,300
Median gross rent
$1,010
vs
$1,010
Homeownership rate
85.7%
vs
85.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
10.3%
vs
10.8%
Poverty rate
12.0%
vs
11.8%
Median age
60.0
vs
60.4

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.