Arizona · Market data
Maricopa County, AZ supports 78 taxi and limousine businesses across 4,673,096 residents. Below: how those operators break down by size, how the market compares with its state and the country, and what the sector pays — all from the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns.
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.
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| Measure | Maricopa County |
|---|---|
| County | Maricopa County, AZ |
| State | Arizona |
| Residents (Census 2024 estimate) | 4,673,096 |
| Taxi and limousine establishments | 78 |
| Taxi and limousine employeesCensus noise flag H — approximate. | 1,082 |
| Taxi and limousine annual payroll | $71.9m |
| Taxi and ridesharing establishments | 30 |
| Taxi and ridesharing employeesCensus noise flag H — approximate. | 715 |
| Taxi and ridesharing annual payroll | $60.4m |
| Limousine establishments | 48 |
| Limousine employeesCensus noise flag G — approximate. | 367 |
| Limousine annual payroll | $11.5m |
| Operators with 1-4 employees | 49 |
| Operators with 5-9 employees | 8 |
| Operators with 10-19 employees | 8 |
| Operators with 20-49 employees | 10 |
| Operators per 100,000 residentsderived78 establishments ÷ 4,673,096 residents × 100,000. | 1.67 |
| Share of operators with fewer than 5 employeesderived49 of 78 establishments. | 62.8% |
| Annual payroll per employeederived$71.9m payroll ÷ 1,082 employees. | $66,414 |
| Taxi share of taxi-plus-limousine operatorsderived30 taxi ÷ 78 taxi and limousine establishments. | 38.5% |
| Rank among published US county marketsderivedBy taxi and limousine establishments. | 13 of 348 |
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. About County Business Patterns.
Maricopa County, AZ has 78 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 1,082 people — 30 in taxi and ridesharing services and 48 in limousine service.
A market of this size is big enough that customers have alternatives and small enough that reputation travels quickly.
62.8 per cent of operators in Maricopa County, AZ employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
The market mixes very small operators with a tier of larger ones, so the same county contains businesses with genuinely different problems — coverage at the small end, coordination at the large.
The full distribution: 49 with 1-4 employees, 8 with 5-9 employees, 8 with 10-19 employees and 10 with 20-49 employees.
Maricopa County, AZ has 1.67 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head are close to the national midpoint for a published county market.
Within Arizona the median is 1.20 per 100,000, so this county is denser than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $66,414 per employee across the sector in Maricopa County, AZ.
That level of payroll means labour, not vehicles, is the dominant cost — so utilisation per paid hour is the number worth managing.
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Closest by operator count, weighted towards the same state.
| County | Operators | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Harris County, TX | 77 | 1.54 |
| Clark County, NV | 81 | 3.38 |
| Orange County, CA | 72 | 2.27 |
| Miami-Dade County, FL | 71 | 2.50 |
| Middlesex County, MA | 86 | 5.15 |
| Broward County, FL | 70 | 3.44 |
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