Surprise, Arizona

Surprise population, 2020 to 2024

Surprise added 23,171 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.0%. In the latest year it moved by +8,436. Among 57 Arizona places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arizona has 36,468 people, so Surprise is 4.6 times that size.

Surprise covers 110.51 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,516 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Surprise is denser than the typical town.

What county Surprise is in

All of Surprise's residents live in Maricopa County, which had 4,673,096 residents in 2024. Surprise holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Surprise

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Surprise by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 85361, 85374, 85378, 85379, 85387, 85388. 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 Surprise is

The Census internal point of Surprise is at 33.670800, -112.452500. Phoenix, the capital, is 26.7 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Peoria, AZ (199,924 people), 11.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 415 m (1,362 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Surprise

At 33.67° N, Surprise gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 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 Surprise daylight page.

Places near Surprise

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is El Mirage, 9.1 miles away, with 36,468 people.