Chandler, Arizona.
Typical home $512,981 (-1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,893 (+1.6%). Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,410 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,372 -1%
- $519,353$512,981 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,366 +7%
- $480,615$512,981 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.
- Chandler$2,693
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.
Typical home values in Chandler, AZ fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Chandler, AZ rose 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Chandler runs $1,536/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,811 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,429 a month against $1,893 rent: a $2,693 mortgage payment, plus $187 property tax and $549 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Chandler
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$3,429
- Renting$1,893
- Mortgage only$2,693
Property tax · $187/mo 0.44% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Maricopa County, AZ
Insurance & upkeep · $549/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 Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona
Chandler is a city of 275,987 people in Maricopa County. Half its households earn more than $108,095 a year and half less, against $89,300 across Maricopa County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Chandler was 4.4% 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 manufacturing.
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. Chandler is a large city in Maricopa County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Households here earn more than the county as a whole, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a city this size. Adults are well educated, with a good share holding a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly short one, with a good many people working from home.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the biggest workplaces in Chandler are the Chandler Unified School District, Intel, which makes semiconductor devices, and Chandler Regional Medical Center. Unemployment has edged up a little over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are mild and almost never bring snow, while summers are among the hottest in the country, and the air is dry enough that rain is scarce all year. Close by, the Arizona Railway Museum sits in or beside town, and Hohokam Pima National Monument, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Phoenix Zoo and the Desert Botanical Garden.
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- 107,693households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 25%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 69° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 106° and lows near 76°. About 9 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tempe Asu weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chandler
- Chandler Unified District #80 (4242)School district4,915FTE
- IntelSemiconductor devices manufacturing4,668
- IntelSemiconductor devices manufacturing4,478
- Chandler Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,351FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing1,884
- American InterContinental University SystemUniversity or college1,399
- NXP USAMicroprocessor chip manufacturing1,355
- Chandler-Gilbert Community CollegeTwo-year college1,071
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 244 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,193 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ChandlerRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chandler’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.
Chandler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chandler$512,981
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Chandler listings, and the typical home goes pending in 25 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Chandler33.73%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Chandler25
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chandler1,010
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chandler298
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Chandler$497,042
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Chandler98.25%
Zip codes with a Chandler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chandler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Chandler
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85225 | Chandler | 72,297 | $1,754 | $438,217 |
| 85286 | Chandler | 50,621 | $2,086 | $604,203 |
| 85249 | Chandler | 48,746 | $2,777 | $669,416 |
| 85224 | Chandler | 47,963 | $1,735 | $448,297 |
| 85226 | Chandler | 42,294 | $1,795 | $492,348 |
| 85248 | Chandler | 37,095 | $2,361 | $548,956 |