Arizona Rail Passenger Association
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.
Rail: $ 1.2 Highway: $50.0
Phoenix-Tucson 119.6 Phoenix-Yuma 173.0 Phoenix-Wickenburg 53.9 Tucson-Nogales 65.5
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:
with links to Yahoo's County information
Source: Arizona Dept. of Economic Security, July 1990 Estimate of Population
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
NOTE: Since 1990, the Phoenix metro area has risen in population so that it is now the seventh largest city in the United States.