Arlington, Arizona.
Typical home $448,745 (+6.8% in a year). Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$173 (+8%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $28,481 +7%
- $420,263$448,745 since Sep 2025
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.
- Arlington$2,355
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Arlington, AZ rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arlington, Maricopa County, Arizona
Arlington, in Maricopa County, had 150 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Maricopa County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Maricopa County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arlington is a very small desert community in Maricopa County, home to only a few people compared with the towns around it. Winters are mild and the summers are among the hottest anywhere in the country, with very little snow and little rain through the year. A typical home here costs less than the county's higher-priced areas, and household incomes across Maricopa County sit at a comfortable level for the region.
Work. Residents of Arlington work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Across Maricopa County, large workplaces include the City of Phoenix, Mayo Clinic Hospital and Grand Canyon University. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, Centennial Wash is a desert river course good for a walk. Farther afield, White Tank Mountain Regional Park is a protected area with desert hiking, and Wildlife World Zoo is a zoo to visit for a day out. Phoenix Raceway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Maricopa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Maricopa County had 2,289,324 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 68° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 108° and lows near 82°. About 6 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Painted Rock Dam weather station, 23 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Maricopa County
- City of PhoenixPolice and fire departments, combined15,698
- Arizona State University Campus ImmersionUniversity or college14,448
- Educational ServicesEducational support services8,425
- IES CommunicationsLow voltage electrical work8,143
- Mayo Clinic HospitalGeneral hospital7,876FTE
- Grand Canyon UniversityUniversity or college7,773
- Mesa Unified District (4235)School district7,509FTE
- Phoenix Children's HospitalChildren's hospital5,836FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3,542 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 658,585 people in all across the county; Arlington has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arlington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Maricopa County and the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
Arlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arlington$448,745
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arlington8
Zip codes with a Arlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.