Toilet Repair in Arizona

Weighted across 2,241,970 occupied homes. Separately, 47% of the state’s 2,457,129 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 47 towns we route in here, 2 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 32 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 26 are strongly owner-occupied and 1 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Arizona

Arizona licenses are issued by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. Arizona licenses plumbing contractors rather than individual journeymen.

• Apache Junction 80% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Avondale 61% owner-occupied · 19% pre-1990
• Buckeye 85% owner-occupied · 9% pre-1990
• Carefree 90% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Casa Grande 73% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Cashion 66% owner-occupied · 70% pre-1990
• Cave Creek 92% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Chandler 68% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Coolidge 68% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• El Mirage 70% owner-occupied · 13% pre-1990
• Eloy 69% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Florence 85% owner-occupied · 20% pre-1990
• Fort McDowell 91% owner-occupied · 25% pre-1990
• Fountain Hills 83% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Gila Bend 65% owner-occupied · 79% pre-1990
• Gilbert 74% owner-occupied · 14% pre-1990
• Glendale 61% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Gold Canyon 92% owner-occupied · 9% pre-1990
• Goodyear 78% owner-occupied · 7% pre-1990
• Green Valley 84% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Laveen 81% owner-occupied · 9% pre-1990
• Litchfield Park 82% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Marana 84% owner-occupied · 12% pre-1990
• Maricopa 81% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Mesa 65% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Morristown 85% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• New River 94% owner-occupied · 17% pre-1990
• Paradise Valley 84% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Peoria 75% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Phoenix 55% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Queen Creek 89% owner-occupied · 6% pre-1990
• Rio Verde 97% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Sahuarita 82% owner-occupied · 10% pre-1990
• San Tan Valley 82% owner-occupied · 4% pre-1990
• Scottsdale 69% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Sun City 85% owner-occupied · 83% pre-1990
• Sun City West 88% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Surprise 79% owner-occupied · 7% pre-1990
• Tempe 42% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Tolleson 70% owner-occupied · 12% pre-1990
• Tonopah 85% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Tucson 62% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Vail 93% owner-occupied · 9% pre-1990
• Waddell 92% owner-occupied · 20% pre-1990
• Wickenburg 79% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Wittmann 89% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Youngtown 61% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990