Buckeye, Arizona

Buckeye population, 2020 to 2024

Buckeye added 20,593 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +22.0%. In the latest year it moved by +4,960. Among 57 Arizona places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arizona has 36,468 people, so Buckeye is 3.1 times that size.

Buckeye covers 395.38 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 289 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Buckeye is less dense than the typical town.

What county Buckeye is in

All of Buckeye's residents live in Maricopa County, which had 4,673,096 residents in 2024. Buckeye holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Buckeye

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Buckeye by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 85326, 85340, 85396. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Buckeye is

The Census internal point of Buckeye is at 33.431600, -112.641600. Phoenix, the capital, is 32.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Surprise, AZ (167,564 people), 19.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 328 m (1,076 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Buckeye

At 33.43° N, Buckeye gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Buckeye daylight page.

Places near Buckeye

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is Litchfield Park, 17.0 miles away, with 6,863 people.