El Mirage, Arizona

Current Weather

The city of El Mirage is located in Maricopa County.

El Mirage is 390 feet [118.87 m] above sea level.^<1>

Time Zone: El Mirage lies in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time.

California has a community that is also named El Mirage.

At the time of the 2000 Census, El Mirage had a population of 7,609 people^<2> (or 0.25% of the total population of Maricopa County). The population of El Mirage represented 0.15% of the total of Arizona, making it the state's 41st most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, El Mirage had a population of 24,751 people. This is an increase of 225.29% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for El Mirage.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance<3>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Apache Junction	E	12 mi [19.31 km]	32,776	3.02% increase
	Chandler	SW	10 mi [16.09 km]	247,140	39.96% increase
	Fountain Hills	N	13 mi [20.92 km]	25,227	24.67% increase
	Gilbert	S	6 mi [9.66 km]	216,449	97.32% increase
	Guadalupe	W	12 mi [19.31 km]	5,948	13.77% increase
	Hohokam Village	NW	4 mi [6.44 km]	---

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for El Mirage.

Website for El Mirage

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either El Mirage or Maricopa County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.

The Commemorative Quarter for Arizona<4>

Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' is a very useful tool for people who might be planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) El Mirage. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

Other Roadside Stops

Off-the-Road Links

Footnotes