Safford, Arizona

Safford population, 2020 to 2024

Safford added 122 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -11. Among 57 Arizona places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arizona has 36,468 people, so Safford is 28% of it.

Safford covers 9.28 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,105 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Safford is denser than the typical town.

What county Safford is in

All of Safford's residents live in Graham County, which had 40,242 residents in 2024. Safford holds 25.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Safford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Safford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 85546. 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 Safford is

The Census internal point of Safford is at 32.833300, -109.697400. Phoenix, the capital, is 143.9 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oro Valley, AZ (48,855 people), 79.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tucson, AZ, 83.0 miles away.

Daylight in Safford

At 32.83° N, Safford gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Safford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is Thatcher, 4.3 miles away, with 5,627 people.