Arizona: State Summary
SNAPS data is derived from the 2000 U.S. Census and several 2003 CDC databases. For more information, see the Credits page.
State Health Department
- Arizona Department of Health Services: 150 N. 18th Avenue Suite 500, Phoenix
Population:
- Total Population: 5,130,632
- Males: 2,556,483
- Females: 2,574,149
Top 15 Languages spoken at home: (> 5000)
- English only (3,523,490)
- Spanish (927,390)
- Navaho (89,950)
- German (25,100)
- French (15,565)
- Chinese (13,745)
- Apache (11,030)
- Tagalog (9,990)
- Vietnamese (9,925)
- Pima (9,300)
- Italian (8,985)
- Korean (7,640)
- Arabic (7,580)
- Japanese (6,110)
- Polish (5,440)
Top 5 Religions by Adherents:
- Catholic Church (974,883)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The (251,974)
- Southern Baptist Convention (138,516)
- Assemblies of God (82,802)
- Jewish Estimate (81,675)
Disabilities:
- Total Reported: 1,581,859
- Sensory: 160,686
- Physical: 382,996
- Mental: 215,438
- Self-care: 113,590
- Go outside home: 306,787
- Employment: 386,013
Grandparents as caregivers
Grandparents as caregivers: 52,210
Heating fuel:
- Total Reported: 1,901,327
- Utility gas: 712,868
- Bottled or LP gas: 98,536
- Electricity: 1,033,095
- Fuel oil, kerosene: 1,813
- Coal or Coke: 993
- Wood: 39,842
- Solar Energy: 1,226
- Other fuel: 2,642
- No fuel used: 10,312
Vehicles available:
- Total Reported: 3,632,540
- No vehicle: 256,548
- 1 or more vehicle: 3,375,992
Education Attainment:
- No School: 49,930
- No High School: 204,766
- Some High School: 364,851
- High School: 791,904
- Some College: 859,165
- Associate's Degree: 219,356
- College Degree: 493,419
- Master's Degree: 185,814
- Professional Degree: 57,304
- Doctoral Degree: 29,675
Household Phones:
- Households Reporting: 1,901,327
- Owners with phone: 1,260,415
- Owners without phone: 33,222
- Renters with phone: 570,591
- Renters without phone: 37,099
- Page last updated on Mar 12, 2007
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