Flagstaff, Arizona

Flagstaff population, 2020 to 2024

Flagstaff added 448 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +720. Among 57 Arizona places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arizona has 36,468 people, so Flagstaff is 2.1 times that size.

Flagstaff covers 66.02 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,174 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Flagstaff is denser than the typical town.

What county Flagstaff is in

All of Flagstaff's residents live in Coconino County, which had 145,161 residents in 2024. Flagstaff holds 53.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Flagstaff

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Flagstaff by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 86001, 86004, 86005, 86011. 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 Flagstaff is

The Census internal point of Flagstaff is at 35.185200, -111.620700. Phoenix, the capital, is 122.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Peoria, AZ (199,924 people), 104.3 miles away.

Daylight in Flagstaff

At 35.19° N, Flagstaff gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Flagstaff

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is Sedona, 24.6 miles away, with 9,778 people.