Arizona · Census place 0466470

Show Low, Arizona

Show Low is a city in Navajo County, Arizona with an estimated 12,366 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 43rd largest of 85 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
12,366
#43 of 85 in Arizona
Change since 2020
+5.1%
+601 people
Land area
65.5 sq mi
+ 0.47 sq mi water
Density
189 / sq mi
State median 980
Orange pin: Show Low. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Phoenix.

Show Low population, 2020 to 2024

Show Low added 601 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +93. Among 57 Arizona places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 24th; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arizona has 36,468 people, so Show Low is 34% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 11,735. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Show Low covers 65.51 square miles of land and 0.47 of water, for 189 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Show Low is less dense than the typical town.

What county Show Low is in

All of Show Low's residents live in Navajo County, which had 109,516 residents in 2024. Show Low holds 11.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Show Low

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Show Low by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 85901. 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 Show Low is

The Census internal point of Show Low is at 34.265100, -110.038300. Phoenix, the capital, is 129.7 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Payson, AZ (16,762 people), 73.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Scottsdale, AZ, 111.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
34.265100, -110.038300
DMS
34°15'54.36"N 110°02'17.88"W
UTM
12N 588535.6E 3791968.7N
Geohash
9w1fbjb89
Plus code
856F7X86+2M

Daylight in Show Low

At 34.27° N, Show Low gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Show Low

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is Pinetop-Lakeside, 9.1 miles away, with 4,148 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Show Low, AZ?

12,366 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 601 (5.1%) from 11,765 in July 2020.

What county is Show Low in?

Navajo County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Show Low?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 85901.

How far is Show Low from Phoenix?

129.7 miles (208.8 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Show Low.

What is the nearest larger city to Show Low?

Payson, AZ, with 16,762 residents, 73.1 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.