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Arizona Counties

Complete list of all 15 counties in Arizona with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties
15
Population
7,449,663
Area
113,596 sq mi
Capital
Phoenix
Time Zone
Mountain (no DST)
Labeled map of Arizona counties

Labeled outline map of Arizona counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

All 16 Arizona counties

County County Seat Population Area Median Income Cities
Maricopa4,488,6809,200 mi²$92,57039
Pima1,037,8069,187 mi²$73,85716
Pinal562,8375,366 mi²$88,74125
Yavapai246,8648,124 mi²$69,50424
Mohave220,02313,311 mi²$59,92121
Yuma211,3435,514 mi²$62,9476
Coconino143,94318,619 mi²$71,78123
Cochise118,6116,166 mi²$61,83620
Navajo97,4519,950 mi²$57,16925
McKinley69,3730 mi²$48,24519
Apache68,52511,198 mi²$45,36029
Gila61,4824,758 mi²$58,09211
Santa Cruz49,3681,237 mi²$55,4867
Graham47,2814,623 mi²$66,06210
La Paz16,6644,500 mi²$52,8018

How many counties does Arizona have?

Arizona has 15 counties covering 113,596 square miles and roughly 7,449,663 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1912 as the 48th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.

The largest county by land area is Coconino County at 18,619 square miles, home to about 143,943 residents. The most populous is Maricopa County with approximately 4,488,680 residents — a density of about 488 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Greenlee County has only about 9,412 residents.

Phoenix is both the state capital and the largest city in Arizona.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Arizona’s county boundaries from our blank map of Arizona page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Arizona county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Arizona address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Arizona specifically: the 100-mile radius around Phoenix measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Arizona ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Arizona’s 15 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Arizona has 15 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1912 as the 48th state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.
Coconino County is the largest by land area at 18,619 square miles, with about 143,943 residents.
Maricopa County is the most populous, with approximately 4,488,680 residents over 9,200 square miles.
Greenlee County has the smallest population at about 9,412 residents.
Phoenix is both the state capital and the largest city in Arizona.
Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.
Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.

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