Gadsden, Arizona.
Typical home $240,624 (+0.2% in a year). Yuma, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$743 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $369 +0%
- $240,256$240,624 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,265 +28%
- $187,359$240,624 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.
- Gadsden$1,263
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Gadsden, AZ rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gadsden, Yuma County, Arizona
The Census does not count Gadsden on its own, so the figures here are Yuma County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,876 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Yuma County was 19.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yuma County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gadsden is a small town in Yuma County, in the far southwest corner of Arizona near the Mexican border. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a sizable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and summers are very hot, with little or no snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and farming, forestry and mining also provide work. Unemployment is high compared with most of the country, and the number of jobs has dipped slightly over the past year. Relatively few people work from home, and most commutes are shorter than those in much of the country.
Things to do. The Muggins Mountain Wilderness, a protected area, lies a longer drive away. Tenmile Wash, a river, is also a longer drive away.
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- 79,341households
- 36.1median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Yuma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yuma County had 71,265 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 69° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 109° and lows near 78°. About 4 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tacna Northeast weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yuma County
- Yuma Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,259FTE
- Tanimura & AntleVegetable and potato farming, vegetable dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production1,295
- Yuma Elementary District (4499)School district1,291FTE
- Arizona Western CollegeTwo-year college1,058
- Yuma Union High School District (4507)School district1,039FTE
- ASPC-YumaPrisons1,021
- D'Arrigo Bros. Co., of California-YumaRomaine lettuce farming, field and seed production756
- Crane Elementary District (4501)School district701FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 173 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,925 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Yuma County, 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 Yuma County and the Yuma, AZ metro.
Gadsden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gadsden$240,624
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gadsden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gadsden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.