Cactus FlatsAZ
1,508 people live in this town in Arizona.
Is Cactus Flats a good place to live?
The best of Cactus Flats’ subject grades are an A for cost of living and an A− for the outdoors; the weakest is a D for walkability. No town among the 141 in Arizona we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Cactus Flats. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 81% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Among 141 Arizona towns, just 5 have a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Cactus Flats. The biggest park or preserve is Roper Lake State Park, at 86 acres. Cactus Flats has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Cactus Flats for work
Where Cactus Flats’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Cactus Flats grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Arizona), ordered by how far Cactus Flats is from typical.
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Moving to Cactus Flats: who provides what
Cactus Flats is unincorporated, so Graham County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Cactus Flats.
Natural hazards: very high risk in Cactus Flats, mostly inland flooding
53% of Cactus Flats’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by heat waves at 24%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With only 0.0 jobs per working resident, most people in Cactus Flats work out of town
The median commute is under 7 miles. Cactus Flats had 12 jobs in 2023, down 31 from 2013. The mean commuting time for Cactus Flats comes to 19 minutes. The top destinations are Safford (37%), Morenci (9%) and Tucson (8%).
| Cactus Flats | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The climate in Cactus Flats brings mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons reach 99°, January nights drop to 31° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In Cactus Flats, 12.2% of the land is conserved
Trails total 7.4 miles in 1 park or preserve. The trail network density for Cactus Flats comes to 1.2 miles per square mile, where Arizona’s towns sit at 1.1 and U.S. towns at 0.4.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Roper Lake State Park | 0.9 mi | 86 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Residents of Cactus Flats are less healthy than 58% of U.S. towns
In Cactus Flats, 23% of adults say their health is fair or poor, above both Arizona’s towns (21%) and U.S. towns (19%). The share of adults 18 to 64 in Cactus Flats who have no health insurance: 14%.
| Cactus Flats | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 75% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 12% | 8.1% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 21% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Cactus Flats | AZ |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 19.3% | 14.7% |
| More smokers | 14.8% | 11.4% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.3% | 6.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Cactus Flats sell for about $320K
Among households in Cactus Flats, 92% are owner-occupiers.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Cactus Flats
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Cactus Flats
About 6 of every 100 Cactus Flats residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Arizona.
About Cactus Flats
CDP in Graham County, Arizona
Cactus Flats is a census-designated place in Graham County, Arizona, United States. Its population was 1,524 as of the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 6.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 3,127 ft
- Area code
- 928
Cactus Flats’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Cactus Flats.
| Town | AZ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus Flats | — | — | A | — | B | C+ |
| Swift Trail Junction | #56 | B− | A | — | B | B+ |
Cactus Flats has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Cactus Flats and Swift Trail Junction report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Cactus Flats with a neighbor →
Questions about Cactus Flats
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cactus Flats, AZ a good place to live?
1,508 people live in this town in Arizona.
Is Cactus Flats, AZ expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $314,000, 25% below the Arizona typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.