Avondale, Arizona.
Typical home $392,912 (-1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,658 (-0.6%). Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,114 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,873 -1%
- $397,786$392,912 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,770 +4%
- $377,142$392,912 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.
- Avondale$2,062
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 85 years.
Typical home values in Avondale, AZ fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Avondale, AZ fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Avondale runs $969/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,255 in Oct 2022.
That is $2,626 a month against $1,658 rent: a $2,062 mortgage payment, plus $143 property tax and $421 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Avondale
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.
- Owning all in$2,626
- Renting$1,658
- Mortgage only$2,062
Property tax · $143/mo 0.44% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Maricopa County, AZ
Insurance & upkeep · $421/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.
Living in Avondale, Maricopa County, Arizona
Avondale is a city of 89,334 people in Maricopa County. Half its households earn more than $86,123 a year and half less, against $89,300 across Maricopa County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Avondale was 5.0% in August 2026, and Maricopa County had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Avondale is a city in Maricopa County, on the western side of the Phoenix area. It is a younger place than many, with a median age lower than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home costs a good deal more than a typical month's rent would suggest, as it does in much of the region. Winters are mild and almost never bring snow, while summers are among the hottest in the country, and very little rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in Avondale include the Agua Fria Union High School District, Estrella Mountain Community College and Costco Wholesale. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and a typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Salt River and the Agua Fria River both lie a short drive away. Phoenix Raceway, a race track, and Goodyear Ballpark, a stadium, are also a short drive away. Further off, a longer drive takes you to the Phoenix Zoo and the Heard Museum.
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- 30,014households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents 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 66° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 107° and lows near 81°. About 7 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laveen Sse weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avondale
- Agua Fria Union High School District (4289)School district1,018FTE
- Estrella Mountain Community CollegeTwo-year college724
- Avondale Elementary District (4272)School district680FTE
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer369
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
- Copper SpringsPsychiatric hospital300FTE
- SanMarUnisex clothing merchant wholesalers278
- Fry's Food Stores of ArizonaSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,594 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avondale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Avondale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avondale$392,912
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Avondale listings, and the typical home goes pending in 31 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Avondale30.10%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Avondale31
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Avondale288
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Avondale77
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Avondale$397,183
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Avondale99.42%
Zip codes with a Avondale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avondale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Avondale
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85323 | Avondale | 47,043 | $1,779 | $383,303 |
| 85392 | Avondale | 39,079 | $1,596 | $405,786 |