Duncan, Arizona.
. Safford, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,161 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
Living in Duncan, Greenlee County, Arizona
Duncan is a town of 694 people in Greenlee County. Unemployment in Greenlee County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greenlee County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Duncan is a very small town in Greenlee County, in the dry southeastern corner of Arizona. Winters are cold but not severe, and summers are hot, with June the warmest month. Very little rain or snow falls across the year, so the landscape stays arid. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the work people do reflects the rural setting.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades. The usual trip to work is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home. Across Greenlee County, the largest workplaces include the Morenci Unified District and the Duncan Unified District, which are school districts, along with the Forest Service. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment is somewhat higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Railroad Wash, a river course, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the San Francisco River and to the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area, a protected area along the water. These are places for time outdoors in a quiet corner of the state.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Greenlee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenlee County had 5,649 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 59° and lows near 25°; warmest in June, with highs near 98° and lows near 57°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Duncan weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenlee County
- Morenci Unified District (4230)School district304FTE
- Duncan Unified District (4228)School district60FTE
- Bloomfield CompaniesHome improvement40
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 40 people in all across the county; Duncan has one of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Duncan’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 Greenlee County and the Safford, AZ metro.
Duncan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Duncan8
Zip codes with a Duncan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duncan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.