It certainly isn't the boom times of the last decade but a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows Arizona's population grew by more than 1.4 percent in the past year.
The federal agency estimates there were 6,828,065 people living in the state as of July 1, 2015. That's about 99,000 more than a year earlier. Some of that is natural growth-- births minus deaths-- but most is due to the steady trickle of people moving here from other states and countries.
Economist Tom Rex of Arizona State University figures that includes a lot of baby boomers reaching retirement age.
"It's not dependent on finding a job locally here," Rex said. "Housing costs are down from where they were in the mid 2000s. So that makes it easier for people to move here. And the economy in general around the country has improved so they can sell their house in other places."
But he doesn't expect a big inflow of working-age people into Arizona until job growth improves. Rex said firms with lots of good-paying jobs look to two things: the quality of the workforce and the quality of the infrastructure.
"This state refuses to invest in itself in terms of education, physical infrastructure," he said. "We're falling in the ranks of economic development. Companies do look at those things."
In 2006 the Census Bureau listed Arizona as the fastest growing state in the nation when it added 213,311 people during a 12 month period.