Glendale, Arizona.
Typical home $399,844 (-1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,511 (+1.3%). Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,125 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,047 -1%
- $404,891$399,844 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,098 +6%
- $376,746$399,844 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.
- Glendale$2,099
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 58 years.
Typical home values in Glendale, AZ fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Glendale, AZ rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Glendale runs $1,161/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,355 in May 2024.
That is $2,673 a month against $1,511 rent: a $2,099 mortgage payment, plus $146 property tax and $428 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Glendale
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,673
- Renting$1,511
- Mortgage only$2,099
Property tax · $146/mo 0.44% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Maricopa County, AZ
Insurance & upkeep · $428/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona
Glendale is a city of 248,325 people in Maricopa County. Half its households earn more than $73,530 a year and half less, against $89,300 across Maricopa County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Glendale was 5.1% in August 2026, and Maricopa County had 0.4% more 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. Glendale is a large city in the Phoenix area, and its residents skew younger than the typical American community. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than a comfortable median would suggest, though a majority of homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and summers are very hot, with little or no snow and only modest rainfall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Glendale are Peoria Unified School District, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center and Glendale Community College. Commutes are fairly typical for a big metro area, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Several large venues are a short drive away, including State Farm Stadium and Chase Field, both stadiums, and the Phoenix street circuit, a race track. For quieter outings, the Heard Museum, a museum, is also a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Phoenix Zoo and the Desert Botanical Garden.
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- 88,633households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Maricopa County had 2,289,324 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 64° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 105° and lows near 80°. About 8 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Youngtown weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glendale
- Peoria Unified School District (4237)School district3,554FTE
- Banner Thunderbird Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,271FTE
- Glendale Union High School District (4285)School district1,600FTE
- Glendale Community CollegeUniversity or college1,417
- Abrazo Arrowhead CampusGeneral hospital1,170FTE
- Glendale Elementary District (4271)School district1,066FTE
- Midwestern University-GlendaleUniversity or college1,054
- Brooklyn BeddingMattresses made from felt, foam rubber, urethane and similar materials750
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 166 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,240 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of GlendaleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glendale’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 Maricopa County and the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
Glendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glendale$399,844
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Glendale listings, and the typical home goes pending in 32 days — 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.
- Glendale35.30%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Glendale32
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glendale790
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glendale213
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Glendale$397,983
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Glendale97.96%
Zip codes with a Glendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glendale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Glendale
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85301 | Glendale | 68,178 | $1,166 | $305,492 |
| 85308 | Glendale | 65,095 | $1,707 | $467,433 |
| 85302 | Glendale | 40,612 | $1,360 | $373,336 |
| 85303 | Glendale | 33,663 | $1,590 | $372,233 |
| 85304 | Glendale | 29,861 | $1,926 | $397,185 |
| 85306 | Glendale | 24,911 | $1,552 | $397,709 |
| 85305 | Glendale | 18,043 | $1,640 | $451,516 |
| 85307 | Glendale | 14,223 | $1,669 | $404,039 |