Mesa, Arizona

Mesa population, 2020 to 2024

Mesa added 11,201 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +3,158. Among 57 Arizona places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arizona has 36,468 people, so Mesa is 14.2 times that size.

Mesa covers 141.82 square miles of land and 0.63 of water, for 3,647 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Mesa is denser than the typical town.

What county Mesa is in

All of Mesa's residents live in Maricopa County, which had 4,673,096 residents in 2024. Mesa holds 11.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mesa

13 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mesa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 85201, 85202, 85203, 85204, 85205, 85206, 85207, 85208, 85209, 85210, 85212, 85213, 85215. 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 Mesa is

The Census internal point of Mesa is at 33.400600, -111.716500. Phoenix, the capital, is 20.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Phoenix, AZ (1,673,164 people), 24.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Gilbert, AZ, 6.4 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 405 m (1,329 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Mesa

At 33.40° N, Mesa 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 Mesa daylight page.

Places near Mesa

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is Gilbert, 6.4 miles away, with 288,790 people.