Bisbee, Arizona.
Typical home $224,256 (-1.1% in a year), asking rent $1,200 . Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$593 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,438 -1%
- $226,693$224,256 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,949 +13%
- $198,307$224,256 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.
- Bisbee$1,177
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Bisbee, AZ fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona
Bisbee is a city of 4,923 people in Cochise County. Half its households earn more than $47,613 a year and half less, against $59,742 across Cochise County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Cochise County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bisbee is a small city whose residents are older than in most American towns, and most households own the homes they live in. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cool and mild by northern standards, summers are hot, and snow is rare, with modest rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and other services also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Bisbee are Cochise County, Copper Queen Community Hospital and the Bisbee Unified School District. The commute is short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden and Warren Ballpark, a stadium. Farther out, a longer drive takes you to Coronado National Memorial, a protected area, and to Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park, another protected area.
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- 2,683households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 25%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cochise County had 34,618 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in June, with highs near 89° and lows near 60°. About 3 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bisbee 1WNW weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bisbee
- Cochise CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local640
- Copper Queen Comm. HospCritical access hospital291FTE
- Bisbee Unified District (4169)School district89FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 640 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Bisbee’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 Cochise County and the Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ metro.
Bisbee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bisbee$224,256
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bisbee listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Bisbee21.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bisbee80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bisbee13
Zip codes with a Bisbee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bisbee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.