Bowie, Arizona.
Typical home $71,639 (-14.7% in a year). Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $229 (-38%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $12,322 -15%
- $83,961$71,639 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.
- Bowie$376
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bowie, AZ fell 14.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bowie, Cochise County, Arizona
Bowie, in Cochise County, had 406 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Cochise County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowie is a very small community in Cochise County, Arizona, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here cost much less than the typical American house, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is low. Across Cochise County, incomes are modest and jobs have slipped slightly in the most recent year, with unemployment higher than a year earlier.
Work. People who live in Bowie work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Cochise County, some of the biggest employers are Cochise County itself, the Cochise County Community College District and the Sierra Vista Unified District. A typical commute is a fairly long one, so many residents spend a good part of the day on the road.
Things to do. Railroad Wash, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Chiricahua National Park, and Fort Bowie, a historic fort, is also a longer drive away. Winters are mild by day and cold at night, summers are hot, and the year is dry, which suits outdoor outings in the cooler seasons.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Cochise County 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 December, with highs near 60° and lows near 30°; warmest in June, with highs near 98° and lows near 62°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bowie weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cochise County
- Cochise CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local640
- Cochise County Community College DistrictTwo-year college579
- Sierra Vista Unified District (4175)School district555FTE
- AZ Department of CorrectionsPrisons550
- Canyon Vista Medical CenterGeneral hospital521FTE
- Douglas Unified District (4174)School district421FTE
- Chiricahua Community Health CentersPhysicians' offices419
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters397
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 64 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,971 people in all across the county; Bowie has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bowie’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.
Bowie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowie$71,639
- 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 Bowie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.