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Latitude: 33.651785 -- Longitude: -112.397197

The city was founded in 1937 by real estate developer and state legislator Homer C. Ludden, who named it after his hometown of Surprise, Nebraska. Although there were only a few houses and a gas station on the one-mile-square parcel of land when Ludden subdivided it to build inexpensive houses for agricultural workers, Surprise has experienced tremendous growth in the years since. Tens of thousands of retirees moved to the city in the 1990s and early 2000s to live in Sun City Grand, an age-restricted resort-like community, with homes built by the property development firm Del Webb. (Surprise is about five miles northwest of Del Webb's original Sun City development.) Since it opened in 1996, Sun City Grand has become a large contributor to the city's population, which more than quadrupled from 10,187 to about 75,000 in 2004.[1] (The city's population is now considerably larger than Ludden's hometown, which had a population of 44 in the 2000 United States Census.) -- Source: Wikipedia.com

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The city was founded in 1937 by real estate developer and state legislator Homer C. Ludden, who named it after his hometown of Surprise, Nebraska. Although there were only a few houses and a gas station on the one-mile-square parcel of land when Ludden subdivided it to build inexpensive houses for agricultural workers, Surprise has experienced tremendous growth in the years since. Tens of thousands of retirees moved to the city in the 1990s and early 2000s to live in Sun City Grand, an age-restricted resort-like community, with homes built by the property development firm Del Webb. (Surprise is about five miles northwest of Del Webb's original Sun City development.) Since it opened in 1996, Sun City Grand has become a large contributor to the city's population, which more than quadrupled from 10,187 to about 75,000 in 2004.[1] (The city's population is now considerably larger than Ludden's hometown, which had a population of 44 in the 2000 United States Census.) -- Source: Wikipedia.com

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Census Data for Surprise, Arizona

Arizona 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Surprise	Arizona	United States
Population	30,848	5,130,632	281,421,906
Median age	46.1	34.2	35.3
Median age for Male	42.9	32.9	34
Median age for Female	48.7	35.5	36.5
Households	12,484	1,901,327	105,480,101
Household population	30,724	5,020,782	273,643,273
Average household size	2.46	2.64	2.59
Families	9,723	1,287,367	71,787,347
Average family size	2.75	3.18	3.14
Housing units	16,260	2,189,189	115,904,641
Occupied units	12,484	1,901,327	105,480,101
Vacant units	3,776	287,862	10,424,540

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