City safety & data profile

GilbertAZ

Gilbert, AZ is a 248K-resident city in Maricopa County with a median household income of $122,551.

Maricopa County, Arizona. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Gilbert, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Gilbert has a population larger than 98% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $575,100, and 3 hospitals serving the surrounding area.

Data updated 2026-09-03

248K
Population (place)
Top 2%
By size
$122,551
Median income (place)
$575,100
Median home (place)
5.3%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Gilbert

Gilbert posts a median household income higher than 84% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 3 hospitals serve the Gilbert area.

Top 16%
by median income, US cities
3
hospitals in & near Gilbert

Where Gilbert income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$122,551 Top 16% higher than 84% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Gilbert $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

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Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in AZ

Population among 66 AZ places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Phoenix is the largest AZ city on this list; Paradise Valley leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in AZ

Median household income among the same 66-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Paradise Valley posts the highest place-level median income in AZ; Phoenix is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Gilbert, AZ beyond the headline numbers

Gilbert sits inside Maricopa County, Arizona, at roughly 33.35°N, -111.79°W. Population 247,542, $122,551 median household income. Median home value $575,100, median rent $2,110. Poverty rate 5.3%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

3 hospitals in/around Gilbert, 4/5 avg rating, 2 with an ER.

Hardship is low by national standards: 5.3% of Gilbert, AZ residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.

A median home in Gilbert runs about 4.7 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.

26.1% of Gilbert workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.

Among the CDC measures on this page, stroke departs furthest from its peer median: 2.2% in Gilbert, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Gilbert from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
247,542
Gilbert · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$122,551
+37% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$575,100
+39% vs avg
Median Age (place)
36.1
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Maricopa County): Gilbert's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
4.6M+17%
Median Income
$89,300+67%
Median Home Value
$452,800+157%
Poverty Rate
11%-34%
Unemployment
4.5%-53%

Economics

Economics indicators for Gilbert, AZ
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$2,110/mo
Poverty Rate
5.3% -57% vs avg
Unemployment 3.5%
Bachelor's Degree+ 48.2%
Work From Home 26.1%
Public Transit 0.4%

Population

White 70.3%
African American 3.4%
Asian 6.8%
Two or More Ethnicities 1.6%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
33.8%
Obesity
27.7%
High Blood Pressure
26.2%
Binge Drinking
18.1%
Physical Inactivity
15.2%
Frequent Mental Distress
14.4%
Current Asthma
10%
Frequent Physical Distress
9.6%
Current Smoking
9.1%
Diabetes
8%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 67.6%
Annual Checkup 72.7%

Other Measures

Lack of Health Insurance
7.9%
Coronary Heart Disease
4.1%
Stroke
2.2%

Hospitals 3 total

Rating Distribution
★★★★★
1
★★★★
0
★★★
1
★★
0
★
0
Average Rating
4/5
Total Hospitals
3
With ER
2
MERCY GILBERT MEDICAL CENTER
GILBERT · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★★★★★
BANNER GATEWAY MEDICAL CENTER
GILBERT · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★★★☆☆

What alerts and safety updates affect Gilbert?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Gilbert right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet AZ-GILBERT · Gilbert

Gilbert: 1 tagged alert; lead category ECCC weather alert.

  • VOL-TRACE 1 on record
  • MIX-LED 100% ca-weather
  • DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston

Tagged alert mix: Gilbert

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Gilbert.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Gilbert; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Arizona state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

Houston, TX 1 alerts Washington, DC 1 alerts Nashville, TN 1 alerts Portland, OR 1 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 6

What is the population of Gilbert, AZ? ▼
Gilbert, AZ has a population of 247,542 people, located in Maricopa County, Arizona.
What is the median household income in Gilbert? ▼
The median household income in Gilbert, AZ is $122,551 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 5.3%.
What is the median home value in Gilbert? ▼
The median home value in Gilbert, AZ is $575,100. Median rent is $2,110/month.
What are the top health concerns in Gilbert? ▼
The top health indicators in Gilbert include Short Sleep Duration (33.8%), Obesity (27.7%), High Blood Pressure (26.2%). Data from CDC PLACES.
How many hospitals are in Gilbert? ▼
Gilbert has 3 hospitals with an average rating of 4/5 stars. 2 have emergency departments.
What is the median age in Gilbert? ▼
The median age in Gilbert, AZ is 36.1 years. 48.2% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Gilbert, both outside Arizona so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside AZ (5.3% here).

Pleasanton, CA 5.3% Folsom, CA 5.3% Woodbury, MN 5.3% Shawnee, KS 5.3%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside AZ ($122,551 here).

Damascus, OR $122,500 Herriman, UT $122,650 Edmonds, WA $122,449 Cherry Hill, VA $122,447

Compare Gilbert with another city

Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.

Quick picks:

Nearby Cities 8

Chandler, AZ 261K Mesa, AZ 472K Tempe, AZ 176K Sun Lakes, AZ 14K Tempe Junction, AZ 158K Queen Creek, AZ 35K Scottsdale, AZ 237K Ahwatukee Foothills, AZ 83K
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Using Gilbert's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Gilbert area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Gilbert against Arizona peers on any ranking lens. Explore Arizona

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Maricopa County) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.