Black Canyon City, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Black Canyon City CDP is a small town in Arizona, with 2,297 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #145 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 69% of them. The median age here is 60.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Black Canyon City CDP earn a median of $69,718 a year, 11.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 10% above the $63,545 median for the 206 Arizona cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 11.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Black Canyon City CDP is valued at $286,900, 5.4% below the national figure and 18% above the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 90.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 60.7 puts Black Canyon City CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

The Census withheld gross rent for Black Canyon City CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.