It covers 8,900 acres. Sun City West is a mirror image of Sun City. When Sun City was built out in the early 1970's, Del Web headed four miles west and created Sun City West. The Agua Fria River separates the two towns. Both Sun City and Sun City West are retirement communities.
Sun City is rated one of the top retirement communities in the nation.
It started with the Del E. Webb Corporation in 1960. The corporation set out to develop a planned retirement area. Today Sun City has a population of 59,489. It sits at an elevation of 1,200 feet. The sunny, desert climate offers a summer high temperature of 105 degrees and a winter low temperature of 37 degrees.