Amado, Arizona.
Typical home $253,507 (-0.1% in a year). Tucson, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$711 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $177 -0%
- $253,684$253,507 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,448 +14%
- $223,058$253,507 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.
- Amado$1,331
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Amado, AZ fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amado, Pima County, Arizona
Amado, in Pima County, had 198 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pima County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pima County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Amado is a very small community in Pima County, with a population far smaller than most towns in the state. A typical home here is worth less than what many people pay in larger Arizona towns, and the county's household incomes sit at a middling level for the state. Winters are mild, with a cold month of December that still stays above freezing in the daytime, while summers turn hot, peaking in June. Rain is light across the year, and snow is rare or absent.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Pima County, the biggest workplaces include the University of Arizona, Tucson Unified School District and Tucson Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. Tumacácori National Historical Park, a protected area with an old mission, is a short drive away, as is Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, built around an old fort. Madera Canyon is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Patagonia Lake State Park offers a reservoir setting, and the Titan Missile Museum is a longer drive away too.
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What people in Pima County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pima County had 387,065 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 63° and lows near 32°; warmest in June, with highs near 95° and lows near 59°. About 16 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tumacacori Nm weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pima County
- University of ArizonaUniversity or college13,915
- Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site10,714
- Tucson Unified District (4403)School district6,441FTE
- City of TucsonCity government4,884
- Banner University MED Center TucsonGeneral hospital3,670FTE
- Tucson Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,347FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs3,340
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,139
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 629 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 104,016 people in all across the county; Amado has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Heat wavesVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Amado’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Pima County and the Tucson, AZ metro.
Amado home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amado$253,507
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Amado address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amado — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.