Arizona has 26 affordable homes for every 100 of its poorest renter households, a $12.1 billion drinking-water need under an expiring Colorado River regime, a power peak that set two all-time records in nine days in August 2026, and maternity care an 80-minute drive from the next alternative in rural country.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. Arizona's profile is a growth state's: one of America's worst low-income rental shortages and a $19B combined water and wastewater need sit alongside one of its best-kept bridge fleets and a rural hospital system that is, for now, financially steadier than most — its problem is distance.
Three honesty notes are printed rather than smoothed over. Broadband: Arizona's BEAD allocation was $993.1M, but the approved 2025 plan deploys about $447M of federal funds (within $967M of total investment) across roughly 160,000 locations — both figures are printed, and the Senate delegation's warning about tribal areas at risk of exclusion is carried in the category. A published tribal-lands share of unserved locations could not be verified and is not estimated. Food: the statewide Map the Meal Gap rate printed is the 2023-vintage figure verified from a fetched tabulation (14.4%); the MMG 2026 state roll-up could not be verified in fetched text, and the access measure is 2019-vintage USDA data — both vintages are labelled on the measures. Hospitals: only CHQPR's screens are printed — a Chartis-based cross-check for Arizona could not be verified from a fetched source, and that limitation is stated in the category rather than filled with an unsourced second opinion.
Traffic is printed by metro (Phoenix–Mesa 76 hours / 1.24; Tucson 50 hours / 1.17 — TTI 2025, 2024 data), never blended. Water uses EPA needs-survey figures via ASCE ($12.1B drinking water, $6.9B wastewater); the Colorado River shortage context is sourced to CAP's own published position — the 2007 guidelines and Drought Contingency Plan expire at the end of 2026 — not asserted editorially. Power prints utility forecasts as forecasts (APS above 13,000 MW by 2038; a 9,164 MW all-time peak set August 2, 2026) and the 59.33 GW battery queue as a labelled secondary computation on Berkeley Lab data, not as capacity. Bridges prints TRIP's 1% (bridges 20 ft+) and ASCE's 1.6% (all 8,587 bridges) side by side with their universes, not averaged.