Surprise is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. The population was 30,848 at the 2000 census; however, rapid expansion has boosted the city's population to 117,517 at the 2010 census, an increase of 281%. As such, it is the second-fastest-expanding municipality in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area (after Gilbert) and, between 1990 and 2000, it was the sixth-fastest-expanding place among all cities and towns in Arizona.
The city has a 10,562-square-foot (981.2 m2) Aquatics Center and Maricopa County's northwest regional library, a $5.5 million, 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) library, along with a 100.3 cost of living index.
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community, transportation
Surprise has a mixture of residents from all different ages. It's also a very quiet community.
I feel that surprise is an age friendly neighborhood because, it's a small city where the elderly come to retire. It's quite the crime rate is low, and there are many different place they can go to enjoy activities. There are surrounding cities as well just for the elderly like sun city west and young town where they have there own community just for them.
The Majority of Elderly people, reside in Surprise.
It is a large community of all ages and is more suburban feel