About The Navajo Nation

• The Navajo Nation is located in the four corners area of the United States. 

• The Navajo Nation is 27,425 square miles in size.  ⁴

• As of 2010, the Navajo Nation has a population of over 300,000.¹ 

• According to the 2000 census, 42.9 percent of residents of the Navajo Nation live below the poverty level, meaning they had an income of less than $8,350 per year. ²

• This proportion of impoverished people is more than four times the average poverty level in the United States.²

•  21.4 percent of Navajo families lack plumbing.

• 62.6 percent lack basic telephone service.²

• Three quarters of all people living without electricity in the United States reside on the Navajo Indian Reservation in the Four Corners region. It is conservatively estimated that around 18,000 of the 48,000 households on the Navajo Nation lack electricity.²

• Forty percent of housing on reservations is considered inadequate, compared with 6 percent nationwide. ³