[2] Navajo County comprises the Show Low, Arizona Micropolitan Statistical Area.

[4] Navajo County offers not only the Monument Valley, but Keams Canyon, part of the Petrified Forest National Park, and one of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forests in North America.

Nathan Korhman of The Atlantic described the county, in 2022, as "one of Arizona’s most rural regions", stating that a political canvasser would have to drive to get to a sequential house on a list to target, while in more urban areas such a canvasser would walk from place to place.

As of the census of 2010, there were 107,449 people, 35,658 households, and 25,923 families living in the county.

[14] As of the census of 2000, there were 97,470 people, 30,043 households, and 23,073 families living in the county.

24.8% reported speaking Navajo at home, 5.9% other Southern Athabaskan languages, 4.7% Spanish, and 3.2% Hopi.

19.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Navajo County is among the most religiously diverse places in the United States.

A 2020 census by the Public Religion Research Institute (unconnected to the official US census) calculates a religious diversity score of 0.876 for Navajo County, where 1 represents complete diversity (each religious group of equal size) and 0 a total lack of diversity.

[19] Hataalii Yazhi, a medicine man,[20] in the 1970s proposed establishing the school so area children did not have to travel far for their education.

The current campus had a cost of $28 million and an area of 32,000 square feet (3,000 m2).

[22] It is physically in an unincorporated area 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Birdsprings, and has a postal address of Winslow.