Arizona Rail Passenger Association

Arizona Rail - Some Additional Statistics


Ridership

The tri-weekly Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle, saw over 24,000 passengers each year board or alight at Phoenix; and over 7,000 at Tempe. Even with just three trains a week each way, almost a hundred passengers (on average) got on or off each train.

Improvements & Upgrades, $Millions/Mile

Rail: $ 1.2
Highway: $50.0

Rail Mileages

Phoenix-Tucson 119.6
Phoenix-Yuma 173.0
Phoenix-Wickenburg 53.9
Tucson-Nogales 65.5

Populations (1995 Special Census)

with links to city data

Phoenix 1,149,417
Mesa 338,117
Glendale 182,615
Scottsdale 168,176
Tempe 153,821
Chandler 132,360
Maricopa County, total 2,551,765

Further demographic data:

County Populations (1990)

with links to Yahoo's County information

COUNTY COUNTY SEAT POPULATION
Yuma Yuma 99,600
Maricopa Phoenix 2,133,000
Pinal Florence 114,000
Pima Tucson 692,400
Santa Cruz Nogales 29,900
Cochise Bisbee 105,200
Source: Arizona Dept. of Economic Security, July 1990 Estimate of Population

NOTE: Since 1990, the Phoenix metro area has risen in population so that it is now the seventh largest city in the United States.

Geographic Data


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