Graham County, Arizona

Graham County population, land area and income

Graham County had 40,242 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 4,621.9 square miles of land. It ranks 13th of 15 in Arizona by population and 12th by land area. That works out to 8.7 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and in the bottom quarter nationally.

The median county-equivalent in Arizona has 125,773 residents, so Graham County has 32% of the typical county's population.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $66,469 is above the national county median among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Graham County's population changed since 2020

Graham County gained 1,612 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a rise of 4.2%. That ranks 7th of 15 in Arizona for growth. The median Arizona county changed by +3.3%, and the state as a whole by +5.5%.

Since the April 2020 estimates base, Graham County recorded 2,019 births and 1,748 deaths, a natural change of +271. Net international migration added +166 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to +1,196. The largest single component was domestic migration, which added 1,196 people.

Where Graham County is

The Census internal point of Graham County is at 32.931800, -109.878300. It sits in UTM zone 12N. The map shades Arizona's 15 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with Graham County outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Graham County

3 incorporated places of 1,000+ people have residents in Graham County, 19,032 people together, or 47% of the county. Each figure counts only the part of the town inside Graham County; towns marked "part" extend into another county. The largest is Safford with 10,257.

Counties bordering Graham County

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 7 neighbors for Graham County. The most populous is Pima County, AZ, with 1,080,149 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Pima County

  1,080,149 people

  124 mi WSW

• Pinal County

  513,862 people

  86 mi W

• Cochise County

  125,773 people

  76 mi S

• Navajo County

  109,516 people

  172 mi N

• Apache County

  64,800 people

  171 mi N

• Gila County

  54,073 people

  80 mi NW

• Greenlee County

  9,410 people

  42 mi ENE

Distance to Phoenix and the nearest big city

Phoenix is 131.9 miles WNW of Graham County's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Tucson, AZ (population 554,013), 79.0 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Safford, AZ (population 10,257), 12.5 miles away.

Graham County FIPS code

The FIPS code of Graham County is 04009: state code 04 for Arizona plus county code 009. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $66,469.