Select Features ArcGIS | How to Select Features by Attributes on ArcGIS

Selecting features allows you to identify or work with a subset of features on your map. You'll most likely work with selected features when you are querying, exploring, analyzing, or editing data. Applying a selection lets you specify the features you want to calculate statistics for, view attributes for, or edit or define the set of features that comprise a map layer.

There are several ways you can select features. You can select features with your mouse pointer by clicking them one at a time or by dragging a box around them on the map. There are two main ways to select features interactively on the map:
Use the Select Features toolSelect Featureson the Tools toolbar.
Select their records in the Table or Graph window with your mouse pointer.

Click the Select Features arrow on the Tools toolbar and set the selection option.

Digitize the selection shape in your data frame.
The set of selected features is highlighted in the selection color.

In addition to selecting features graphically in the map, you can select features using a number of additional options:

Selecting features using an attribute query
You can select features that match a query expression using the Select By Attributes tool.