Zip lookup · AZ

85253
Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Paradise Valley, Maricopa County, AZ · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro · population 17,904

What it costs per month · 85253 $17,526/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$12,338 (+238%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $359,994 +12%
$2,979,014$3,339,008 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $1,281,426 +62%
$2,057,582$3,339,008 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$5,000 $10,000 $15,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 85253 $17,526 United States $1,922
$5,000 $10,000 $15,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 85253$17,526
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.

Typical home values in zip 85253 rose 12.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 85253 rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 85253 runs $20,422/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.

That is $22,319 a month against $1,897 rent: a $17,526 mortgage payment, plus $1,219 property tax and $3,575 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 85253

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$5,000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $22,319 Renting $1,897 Mortgage only $17,526
$5,000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$22,319
  • Renting$1,897
  • Mortgage only$17,526

Property tax · $1,219/mo 0.44% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Maricopa County, AZ

Insurance & upkeep · $3,575/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Paradise Valley, AZ — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,897 as of Sep 2026
+0.3%year on year
Typical home value $3,339,008 as of Sep 2026
+12.1%year on year

Asking rent — 85253

Against the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro and the national benchmark.

$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 85253 $1,897 Phoenix $1,720 United States $1,932
$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 85253$1,897
  • Phoenix$1,720
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 85253

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$1,000,000 $2,000,000 $3,000,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 85253 $3,339,008 Phoenix $441,097 United States $366,157
$1,000,000 $2,000,000 $3,000,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 85253$3,339,008
  • Phoenix$441,097
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 83 zips in range — sorting picks from all 83.

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2.6 85018 Phoenix 37,297 $1,648 $980,525
3.8 85028 Phoenix 18,752 $3,174 $705,739
4.0 85258 Scottsdale 25,545 $2,151 $859,142
4.1 85250 Scottsdale 15,394 $2,421 $616,702
4.1 85251 Scottsdale 40,780 $1,992 $520,556
4.8 85016 Phoenix 37,074 $1,668 $516,550
4.8 85254 Scottsdale 45,558 $2,357 $905,672
5.8 85020 Phoenix 34,916 $1,472 $400,506
5.9 85008 Phoenix 59,716 $1,404 $368,196
5.9 85260 Scottsdale 39,896 $1,983 $714,950
6.2 85257 Scottsdale 29,812 $1,973 $546,622
6.2 85014 Phoenix 25,911 $1,461 $439,608
6.2 85032 Phoenix 70,839 $1,597 $449,147
6.9 85012 Phoenix 8,704 $1,535 $641,838
7.5 85006 Phoenix 21,905 $1,499 $402,532
7.5 85013 Phoenix 22,490 $1,582 $480,346
7.8 85022 Phoenix 53,811 $1,421 $461,344
7.9 85021 Phoenix 39,828 $1,197 $428,878
8.2 85281 Tempe 72,762 $1,616 $390,150
8.4 85034 Phoenix 4,854 $1,440 $280,495
8.6 85015 Phoenix 41,490 $1,220 $331,755
9.0 85054 Phoenix 10,346 $1,868 $715,697
9.1 85004 Phoenix 12,408 $1,776 $415,431
9.4 85029 Phoenix 49,683 $1,255 $352,468
9.4 85259 Scottsdale 21,670 $1,689 $1,141,899
9.5 85003 Phoenix 10,875 $1,757 $575,316
9.8 85017 Phoenix 46,129 $1,153 $296,535
9.9 85023 Phoenix 35,034 $1,193 $414,907
9.9 85201 Mesa 51,400 $1,390 $355,411
10.1 85051 Phoenix 45,768 $1,265 $340,384

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.