Arizona · Census place 0471300
Superior, Arizona
Superior is a town in Pinal County, Arizona with an estimated 2,682 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 74th largest of 85 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,682
- #74 of 85 in Arizona
- Change since 2020
- +10.6%
- +258 people
- Land area
- 11.4 sq mi
- Density
- 236 / sq mi
- State median 980
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Superior population, 2020 to 2024
Superior added 258 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.6%. In the latest year it moved by +102.
Superior covers 11.36 square miles of land, for 236 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Superior is less dense than the typical town.
What county Superior is in
All of Superior's residents live in Pinal County, which had 513,862 residents in 2024. Superior holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Superior
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Superior by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 85173. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.
Where Superior is
The Census internal point of Superior is at 33.271600, -111.124200. Phoenix, the capital, is 56.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Florence, AZ (24,891 people), 21.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mesa, AZ, 35.4 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 33.271600, -111.124200
- DMS
- 33°16'17.76"N 111°07'27.12"W
- UTM
- 12N 488433.4E 3681404.1N
- Geohash
- 9tbvr2cv4
- Plus code
- 855C7VCG+J8
Daylight in Superior
At 33.27° N, Superior gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Superior
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is Miami, 16.9 miles away, with 1,531 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Superior, AZ?
2,682 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 258 (10.6%) from 2,424 in July 2020.
What county is Superior in?
Pinal County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Superior?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 85173.
How far is Superior from Phoenix?
56.2 miles (90.4 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Superior.
What is the nearest larger city to Superior?
Florence, AZ, with 24,891 residents, 21.8 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.