Mohave County area

Population and density of Mohave County

The Census Bureau estimates that 228,102 people lived in Mohave County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #316 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #5 of 15 in Arizona. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 213,261, the population has grown by 14,841 (+7%), compared with +6.5% for Arizona as a whole.

With 13,332.1 square miles of land, that is 17 people per square mile (6.6 per km²), placing Mohave County #2,406 nationally for density and #8 in Arizona. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Arizona median is 17. Put another way, there are about 37 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Mohave County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Mohave County. Together they are home to 142,658 people (62.5%); the other 85,444 (37.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Lake Havasu City city, with 59,358 residents in the county. The county seat, Kingman city, has 35,829 residents. By land, Bullhead City city is the largest at 59.4 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Colorado City town grew fastest since then (+40.8%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Mohave County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Mohave County is a central county of the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area. Mohave County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the metro area has the same 13,332.1 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #5 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #215 by population.

ZIP codes

25 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Mohave County; 24 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

85360860218602286401864038640486406864098641186413864268642986431864328643386434864368643786438864408644186442864438644486445

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Mohave County

Mohave County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents, including 5 in Nevada, Utah, and California. It has more land than 6 of them. The largest neighbor is San Bernardino County (20,068.4 mi²) and the smallest is Washington County (2,427.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Mohave County forms a block of 89,583.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.9%.

How big is Mohave County compared with U.S. states?

Mohave County has more land than 9 of the 50 states. It is about 1.4 times the land area of Maryland (9,711 mi²), while West Virginia, the next larger state, has 1.8 times as much land (24,041.4 mi²). Arizona’s county land could hold about 8.5 areas the size of Mohave County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 115.5 miles (185.8 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Mohave County?

Mohave County has more land than 3,205 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Mohave County at #20 nationally by total area, 3 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.2 percentage points lower. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Mohave County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.