#1Queen Creek
Maricopa County59,308 in 2020·89,770 in 2025·+30,462 people
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Fastest-growing towns in Arizona
Queen Creek has grown fastest of Arizona’s 72 towns of 2,500+: up 51.4% from 59,308 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 89,770 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +3.7%; 20 of the 72 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+51.4%
#2Coolidge
Pinal County13,246 in 2020·19,959 in 2025·+6,713 people
#3Buckeye
Maricopa County91,498 in 2020·125,445 in 2025·+33,947 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Arizona?
Queen Creek (Maricopa County): it grew 51.4%, from 59,308 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 89,770 in July 2025. Coolidge (+50.7%) and Buckeye (+37.1%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (72 in Arizona). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Arizona page.
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