Earlier this year, Litchfield Park made headlines after it became the first Arizona city in decades to become a charter city.
While Litchfield Park is now a full-blown city of nearly 7,000 residents (and not many more as the city nears buildout), it was once a small company town largely utilized for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company executives.
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Since then, Litchfield Park has retained its reputation as an affluent community.
In 2022, the city’s median household income was over $117,000. The city also only has a 5.26% poverty rate.
That’s a stretch from Phoenix, where the 2022 median household income was $72,000, and the poverty rate was 14.6%.
Here’s what to know about Litchfield Park’s history and how it got its name.
How did Litchfield Park get its name?
This one is rather self-explanatory: in 1916, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company sent Paul W. Litchfield to Arizona from Ohio to purchase land for cotton.