In Maricopa County, 2025 is on track to be the second-busiest year ever for eviction filings after they reached an all-time high in 2024.
From January through November, Maricopa County landlords filed nearly 78,000 eviction cases. According to Maricopa County Justice Courts, the county will likely see about 84,000 eviction filings by the end of this year, which would be a 4% drop from last year’s record of 87,310 filings.
The number of eviction filings nationwide was high in 2025, but it leveled off slightly from increases in 2023 and 2024, said Juan Pablo Garnham, a spokesperson for the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. So Phoenix’s slight drop from a 2024 record is consistent with national trends.
Population growth partly accounts for the high number of eviction filings in Maricopa County in recent years.
But Maricopa County’s rate of filings per rental household for the last few years has also risen. The rate in 2024 and 2025 has been at its highest point since the years leading up to the 2008 Great Recession, according to data from the Eviction Lab.
And the Valley's eviction filing rate is much higher than the national average of about 7%, Garnham said.
“In Phoenix, we have [an eviction filing rate of] 14% for this last year, which is twice the amount of eviction filings that we see at a national level,” Garnham said.
Garnham said Phoenix is one of several Sun Belt cities, including Las Vegas and Dallas, with higher-than-average eviction rates.
“These are places that have become more expensive in the last decade or so, places that have laws that are friendly towards landlords and that make eviction very easy,” Garnham said.
Eviction Lab data shows evictions disproportionately impact Black and Hispanic renters in the Valley. About 10% of renters in Maricopa County are Black, but about 18% of evictions are filed against Black people. Hispanics make up about 30% of Maricopa County renters, but 36% of eviction filings.
Not every eviction filing results in someone being forced to leave their home. Maricopa County Justice Courts have not yet confirmed the number of orders from judges to remove a tenant from the property, known as writs of restitution, from eviction cases in 2025.
But Garnham said just having a record of an eviction filing can make it harder for a renter to secure future housing and it can have impacts on someone’s physical or mental health.
“A home — a stable place to live and thrive in — is key to all aspects of life,” Garnham said.
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