City of Maricopa Economic Development
Contact: Christian Price
39700 West Civic Center Plaza
Maricopa, AZ 85138
Phone: 520-568-9098
www.maricopa-az.gov

MARICOPANS

Maricopa is a community that embraces long-time neighbors and newcomers from all backgrounds and aspirations. The community honors and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion: these are values deeply embedded in Maricopa’s DNA.

Maricopans are diverse: Black or African Americans comprise 11 percent of the city’s population – the highest such level in Arizona; members of the Hispanic community comprise 28.1 percent of Maricopa’s population, and Asians represent 3.9 percent of the population.

TALENT AND WORKFORCE

Talent drives success and businesses will find a distinctive, job-ready pipeline of educated, innovative and experienced employees in Maricopa, Arizona.

People who live in Maricopa possess the pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit of the West: go-getters who engage cutting-edge approaches to innovate and accelerate business growth and success. Their skills range from customer service representatives to computer coders and from researchers to corporate executives.

Maricopa’s residents have a very high level of educational attainment. In all, nearly 40 percent hold a college degree: 11.4 percent with an associate’s degree; 16.5 percent with a bachelor’s degree, and 8.8 percent with a graduate/professional degree. An additional 27.8 percent of Maricopans have had some college.

Our P-20 educational systems work hand-in-hand with the business community to coordinate curricula and training to prepare the next generation of professionals and technical workers to meet and exceed business talent needs.

Maricopa attracts and retains world-class talent, offering companies such as yours a uniquely skilled and highly qualified workforce that is fully prepared to meet the talent demands of disciplines across leading industries including technology, agribusiness, autonomous mobility and advanced manufacturing.

ECONOMY

Companies find Maricopa ideally suited to their operations for many reasons, not the least of which is Maricopa’s pro-business climate and competitively-priced operation cost environment.

As a relatively new city, Maricopa has been innovative from the outset to ensure that its approach to business growth reflects its culture of efficiency to the end user – a fundamental value that drives how local government works with business.

The Maricopa Advantage:

• Attractive cost of doing business
• Favorable price of land
• Expanding transportation infrastructure
• Access to the Phoenix Metro and points east, west, and south
• Modern and efficient utilities including:
  • • 100-year assured water supply
    • Robust power grid and natural gas
    • Extensive broadband infrastructure

Maricopa has long been home to a thriving and diverse cluster of agriculture operations and related technology firms and research institutes, including state universities, federal research labs and established and emerging companies utilizing intelligent crop science to produce food and clean technology products.

Autonomous mobility is rapidly gaining traction in the State of Arizona and Pinal County, and Maricopa is well-situated for companies seeking to capitalize on the opportunities in this sector. With years-long presence of Volkswagen and Nissan proving grounds, Maricopa has been a center of automotive R&D and testing, and now is benefitting from outsized investments by Lucid Motors and Nikola Motors, which are building new manufacturing centers for their electric vehicles in Pinal County.

Maricopa’s very close proximity less than 30 minutes from the deep concentration of high tech companies in the Phoenix-East Valley presents an outstanding opportunity for firms engaged in R&D, manufacturing, IT and IoT, healthcare and medtech. Maricopa’s unique location attributes, combined with its highly educated workforce, add up to an uncommonly outstanding location for your business.

MARKET ACCESS AND LOCATION

Within minutes of Maricopa city limits, businesses have access to major airports, interstates, and railways. By design, the city has several egresses connecting it to the U.S. and global markets.

AIR

Located only 30 miles south of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, one of the 10 busiest airports in the United States, businesses in Maricopa have nearby access to an airport served by 29 major airlines with daily service to 105 domestic and 23 international destinations.

Phoenix Sky Harbor handles more than 125,000 passengers, 1,200 aircraft and 1,000 tons of air cargo every single day.

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport is located about 40 miles northeast of Maricopa, and handles nearly 1.8 million passengers annually, hosts more than 40 companies and offers nonstop service to approximately 63 domestic and international destinations.

INTERSTATE

Access via ground transportation is immediately available by way of two major interstates (I-10 and I-8), with Maricopa conveniently located only 45 minutes from Downtown Phoenix.

I-10 is the southernmost bicoastal highway in the U.S., reaching from Santa Monica, California to Jacksonville, Florida, with direct access to Phoenix and Tucson.

I-8 offers easy access to San Diego, California via its east-west span, terminating just south of Maricopa.

Long-term planning includes the development of Interstate 11, an international highway that will extend from Mexico to Canada – passing directly through Maricopa.

RAIL

For companies seeking freight rail services, Union Pacific Railroad’s east-west line – traveling the width of Arizona from Yuma to San Simon – runs through Maricopa and is part of the railroad’s Sunset Route, a 760-mile corridor between Los Angeles and El Paso. Five-day-a-week local freight rail service is available in Maricopa for rail-served sites that have been planned with and approved by Union Pacific Railroad.

Maricopa also offers passenger rail access and is the greater Phoenix area’s Amtrak hub. Amtrak’s New Orleans-Los Angeles Sunset Limited has a scheduled stop in Maricopa, the only stop in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

QUALITY OF LIFE AND LIVABILITY

In 2003, the modern founders of the Maricopa envisioned, incorporated, and built a community that is welcoming, safe, and diverse. The quality of life in Maricopa is exceptional and the data substantiates it. Currently, Maricopa is also ranked as the #1 Best Place to Raise a Family in Arizona and the #3 Fastest Growing Cities in Arizona. Maricopa is a family-focused community that offers a myriad of activities for children, youth, and adults.

Whatever your passion for work or play, you will find it in Maricopa, a new, vibrant full-service suburban city just a short drive away from the big city experiences of the Phoenix Metro.

As a young city, Maricopa takes great pride in its well-planned, safe and affordable housing and neighborhoods; caring and neighborly culture; high-performing traditional and charter public schools and wealth of activities and amenities. Maricopa’s serene, natural setting offers plenty of opportunities to get outdoors for fitness, recreation, and relaxation.

Residents of Maricopa enjoy athletic leagues, including eSports, as well as a plethora of indoor and outdoor recreational amenities, like the award-winning Copper Sky Recreation Complex, a premier sporting, fitness, recreation and leisure destination. This expansive complex offers state-of-the-art equipment, green spaces and programs designed to enhance Maricopans’ quality of life.

Maricopa offers a wide range of recreational amenities to ensure our youth, families and adults have access to a myriad of fun-filled activities. Maricopa is home to Ak-Chin Circle Entertainment Center, a world class entertainment facility offering premier movie theaters, affordable yet quality dining, bowling, arcades and more. In addition to these facilities, residents and visitors can avail themselves of championship golf courses, sky diving and a professional car racing experience at the nationally acclaimed APEX Motor Club, a private car club that provides a unique social environment for auto enthusiasts. APEX is located in a perfect setting surrounded by mountain ranges, allowing members to enjoy the most incredible Arizona sunsets.