Congress, Arizona.
Typical home $339,007 (+0.1% in a year). Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$928 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $400 +0%
- $338,607$339,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,919 +12%
- $302,088$339,007 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.
- Congress$1,779
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Congress, AZ rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Congress, Yavapai County, Arizona
Congress, in Yavapai County, had 1,811 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Yavapai County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yavapai County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Congress is a small community where residents are, on the whole, considerably older than across the country, and almost everyone owns the home they live in. Far fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in many American towns. Winters are mild and summers are very hot, with little or no snow and not much rain through the year.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Yavapai County, some of the largest workplaces are Yavapai Regional Medical Center, Yavapai College and the Humboldt Unified School District. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park is a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Hassayampa River, and to the Hassayampa River Preserve, a protected area along its banks. Together they offer quiet places to walk and spend time outdoors.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
What people in Yavapai County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yavapai County had 71,329 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 64° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 104° and lows near 73°. About 11 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wickenburg weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yavapai County
- Yavapai Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,665FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,253
- Yavapai CollegeUniversity or college718
- community Asset ManagmentManagers' offices, residential condominium650
- Humboldt Unified District (4469)School district624FTE
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-PrescottUniversity or college620
- Yavapai Regional Medical Center-EastGeneral medical and surgical hospitals613
- Enchantment ResortResort hotels without casinos604
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,937 people in all across the county; Congress has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Congress’ 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 Yavapai County and the Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro.
Congress home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Congress$339,007
- 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.
- Congress11
Zip codes with a Congress address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Congress — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Congress
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85332 | Congress | 1,577 | — | $340,405 |
| 85320 | Aguila | 458 | — | $476,839 |