With a hometown feel, Apache Junction continues to value and respect the natural environment, with lifestyles and activities everyone can enjoy.

The year-round population of Apache Junction was estimated at 41,104 in 2004. Each year the city welcomes over 35,000 seasonal residents, increasing the population of the city from mid-October to mid-April to over 76,000 residents. The area is fast becoming a popular destination for families, vacationers and business. Surrounded by every natural beauty the southwest can offer, Apache Junction is a growing city with an exciting historic past.

Having celebrated its 25th year of incorporation, Apache Junction has a place in Arizona history as the point of convergence for supplies and labor during the construction of the Roosevelt Dam, 30 miles east on the historic Apache Trail.

Apache Junction, with mining and transportation roots in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, has never had the traditional downtown amenities found in more established communities. The earliest residential and commercial development in Apache Junction occurred in the 1950s and 1960s along the Apache Trail and was centered around the Superstition Inn (the current Grand Hotel Triangle / Basha’s Plaza sites). This is the area that the city is actively working to develop as a 21st-century downtown for the community.

In the past ten years Apache Junction has been experiencing moderate residential growth with over 8,000 new homes constructed. The purchasers of these new homes are primarily young dual-income families with children. The cost of living index for Apache Junction is 73 (100 is the national average).

Close to it all, but far enough away from the hustle and bustle, Apache Junction still has the wide open spaces that people come west to find. With all the amenities found locally or very close by, the Apache Junction area is an inviting oasis in the stress-filled environment of today.

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