Elfrida, Arizona.
Typical home $204,838 (-2.4% in a year). Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$434 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,980 -2%
- $209,817$204,838 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,482 -4%
- $213,319$204,838 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.
- Elfrida$1,075
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Elfrida, AZ fell 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elfrida, Cochise County, Arizona
Elfrida, in Cochise County, had 421 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elfrida is a very small community in Cochise County, in the open country of southeastern Arizona. Homes here are valued below what many buyers would expect to pay across much of the country, and household incomes in the county run below the national picture. The nearest big employers are some distance away, so most residents look to the wider county for work.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Cochise County, the largest workplaces include Cochise County itself, the Cochise County Community College District and the Sierra Vista Unified School District. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Winters are mild and dry, summers are very hot, and snow is rare. Rain and melted snow are scarce through the year, which suits outdoor days. Chiricahua National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area is a protected area along a river, also a longer drive away. Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park, a protected historic site, is another longer drive from town.
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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 64° and lows near 31°; warmest in June, with highs near 99° and lows near 60°. About 11 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mc Neal weather station, 6 miles 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; Elfrida 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
- WildfireVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elfrida’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Elfrida home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elfrida$204,838
- 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.
- Elfrida6
Zip codes with a Elfrida address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elfrida — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.