Douglas, Arizona.
Typical home $172,045 (+0.5% in a year). Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$392 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $815 +0%
- $171,230$172,045 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,550 +5%
- $164,495$172,045 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.
- Douglas$903
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 77 years.
Typical home values in Douglas, AZ rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
Douglas is a city of 16,534 people in Cochise County. Half its households earn more than $42,019 a year and half less, against $59,742 across Cochise County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Douglas is a city on the Arizona border in Cochise County, home to a younger population than much of the country. Incomes are lower than across the county, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, or in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Douglas are the AZ Department of Corrections, the Douglas Unified School District and Chiricahua Community Health Centers. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Grand Theatre is a theatre a short drive away, and the Double Adobe Site, an archaeological site, is also a short drive from town. A longer drive brings you to Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. Winters are mild by day and cold at night, summers are hot, and rain and snow are light through the year, so the cooler months are the easiest time for time outdoors.
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- 4,566households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%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 December, with highs near 65° and lows near 30°; warmest in June, with highs near 97° and lows near 62°. About 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Douglas weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas
- AZ Department of CorrectionsPrisons550
- Douglas Unified District (4174)School district421FTE
- Chiricahua Community Health CentersPhysicians' offices419
- CSL BehringBlood and organ banks42
- AZ ASPC Douglas - NaphCareMedical care management services35
- JCPenneyRetail28
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture25
- DouglasMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,095 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of DouglasRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Douglas’ 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.
Douglas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Douglas$172,045
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Douglas 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.
- Douglas18.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Douglas50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Douglas10
Zip codes with a Douglas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Douglas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.