Gold Canyon vs Saddlebrooke

A side-by-side comparison of Gold Canyon and Saddlebrooke: population, income, housing, and more.

Gold Canyon and Saddlebrooke are places in Arizona. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Saddlebrooke has the higher population (12,616 vs 12,488 in Gold Canyon). Saddlebrooke has the higher median household income ($90,888 vs $85,833 in Gold Canyon). Saddlebrooke has the higher median home value ($471,700 vs $469,600 in Gold Canyon).

Population, income & housing

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
Population	12,488	12,616
Median age	66.1 yrs	71.6 yrs
Median household income	$85,833	$90,888
Median home value	$469,600	$471,700
Median gross rent	$1,213	$2,645
Housing units	7,897	7,280
Homeownership rate	94.3%	95.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	38.1%	52.0%
Unemployment rate	2.9%	13.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
Population	11,612 → 12,488 (+7.5%)	10,945 → 12,616 (+15.3%)
Median household income	$75,518 → $85,833 (+13.7%)	$80,154 → $90,888 (+13.4%)
Median home value	$298,100 → $469,600 (+57.5%)	$361,600 → $471,700 (+30.4%)
Median gross rent	$1,013 → $1,213 (+19.7%)	$1,659 → $2,645 (+59.4%)

Gold Canyon

Population

11,61212,488

Median household income

$75,518$85,833

Median home value

$298,100$469,600

Median gross rent

$1,013$1,213

Saddlebrooke

Population

10,94512,616

Median household income

$80,154$90,888

Median home value

$361,600$471,700

Median gross rent

$1,659$2,645

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
Under 5	1.6%	1.2%
5 to 17	5.8%	4.1%
18 to 24	3.0%	1.2%
25 to 34	4.0%	2.7%
35 to 44	4.0%	4.6%
45 to 54	10.6%	3.6%
55 to 64	18.2%	12.4%
65 to 74	31.3%	34.2%
75 and over	21.6%	36.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
White (non-Hispanic)	86.1%	87.5%
Black or African American	0.8%	0.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	1.1%
Asian	0.8%	0.8%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.7%	1.5%
Hispanic or Latino	8.4%	8.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
No high school diploma	5.5%	0.6%
High school graduate	17.5%	12.1%
Some college or associate's	39.0%	35.2%
Bachelor's degree	24.5%	29.8%
Graduate or professional degree	13.6%	22.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
Drove alone	66.3%	60.0%
Carpooled	4.9%	4.8%
Public transit	1.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.7%
Bicycle	0.8%	0.0%
Worked from home	24.8%	33.6%
Other means	1.7%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
1-unit, detached	80.9%	95.7%
1-unit, attached	5.2%	3.6%
2 to 4 units	3.2%	0.5%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.2%
Mobile home & other	10.7%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Gold Canyon	Saddlebrooke
Poverty rate	8.1%	5.3%
Average household size	2.03	1.90
Mean commute (minutes)	32	36
Median year structure built	2002	2005