Thatcher, Arizona

Thatcher population, 2020 to 2024

Thatcher added 318 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.0%. In the latest year it moved by +138. Among 57 Arizona places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Arizona has 36,468 people, so Thatcher is 15% of it.

Thatcher covers 6.66 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 845 people per square mile of land. The median Arizona place of 5,000+ has 980, so Thatcher is less dense than the typical town.

What county Thatcher is in

All of Thatcher's residents live in Graham County, which had 40,242 residents in 2024. Thatcher holds 14.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Thatcher

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Thatcher by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 85552. 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 Thatcher is

The Census internal point of Thatcher is at 32.812700, -109.766500. Phoenix, the capital, is 140.5 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Safford, AZ (10,257 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tucson, AZ, 78.9 miles away.

Daylight in Thatcher

At 32.81° N, Thatcher 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 Thatcher

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arizona, measured between internal points. The closest is Safford, 4.3 miles away, with 10,257 people.