City safety & data profile
Tanque VerdeAZ
Tanque Verde, AZ is a 17K-resident city in Pima County with a median household income of $121,599.
Pima County, Arizona. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Tanque Verde, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Tanque Verde has a population larger than 35% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $607,900.
Data updated 2026-09-03
- 17K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 36%
- By size
- $121,599
- Median income (place)
- $607,900
- Median home (place)
- 2.3%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Tanque Verde
Tanque Verde posts a median household income higher than 83% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.
- Top 17%
- by median income, US cities
Where Tanque Verde income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$121,599 Top 17% higher than 83% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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.
- Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
1,650,070 residents
- Tucson 542,629
Tucson, AZ
542,629 residents
- Mesa 471,825
Mesa, AZ
471,825 residents
- Chandler 260,828
Chandler, AZ
260,828 residents
- Gilbert 247,542
Gilbert, AZ
247,542 residents
- Glendale 240,126
Glendale, AZ
240,126 residents
- Scottsdale 236,839
Scottsdale, AZ
236,839 residents
- Peoria 190,985
Peoria, AZ
190,985 residents
- Tempe 175,826
Tempe, AZ
175,826 residents
- Surprise 143,148
Surprise, AZ
143,148 residents
What this shows Phoenix is the largest AZ city on this list; Paradise Valley leads median income.
Highest median incomes in AZ
Median household income among the same 66-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Paradise Val…
Paradise Valley, AZ
$247,159 median
- Queen Creek
Queen Creek, AZ
$141,978 median
- New River
New River, AZ
$134,289 median
- Vail
Vail, AZ
$130,904 median
- Gilbert
Gilbert, AZ
$122,551 median
- Tanque Verde
Tanque Verde, AZ
$121,599 median
- Anthem
Anthem, AZ
$120,613 median
- Catalina Foo…
Catalina Foothills, AZ
$115,304 median
- Fountain Hills
Fountain Hills, AZ
$112,654 median
- Marana
Marana, AZ
$112,606 median
What this shows Paradise Valley posts the highest place-level median income in AZ; Phoenix is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Tanque Verde, AZ beyond the headline numbers
Tanque Verde sits inside Pima County, Arizona, at roughly 32.25°N, -110.74°W. Population 16,901, $121,599 median household income. Median home value $607,900, median rent $1,347. Poverty rate 2.3%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
Hardship is low by national standards: 2.3% of Tanque Verde, AZ residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.
A median home in Tanque Verde runs about 5.0 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
23.3% of Tanque Verde 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, frequent mental distress departs furthest from its peer median: 12.3% in Tanque Verde, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Public transit carries 0% of Tanque Verde workers, a smaller share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
At 57.3 years, Tanque Verde's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Tanque Verde 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.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Pima County): Tanque Verde'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.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 2.3% -81% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 4.4% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 58.8% |
| Work From Home | 23.3% |
| Public Transit | 0% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
What alerts and safety updates affect Tanque Verde?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Tanque Verde right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet AZ-TANQUE-VERDE · Tanque Verde
Tanque Verde: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Tanque Verde; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Arizona state hubs · Methodology
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Frequently Asked Questions 5
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Tanque Verde, both outside Arizona so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside AZ (2.3% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside AZ ($121,599 here).
Compare Tanque Verde 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.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Tanque Verde'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 Tanque Verde area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
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- Compare Tanque Verde 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 (Pima 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.