Holbrook, Arizona.
Typical home $197,993 (+5.8% in a year). Show Low, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$521 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,873 +6%
- $187,121$197,993 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,916 +5%
- $189,077$197,993 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.
- Holbrook$1,039
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 75 years.
Typical home values in Holbrook, AZ rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona
Holbrook is a city of 4,858 people in Navajo County. Half its households earn more than $56,502 a year and half less, against $54,606 across Navajo County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Navajo County was 7.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Navajo County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holbrook is a small city and the Navajo County seat, with a younger population than much of the country. Households here earn a little more than the county as a whole, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and very few people work from home. Winters are cold, with highs that stay well short of warm and lows that dip below freezing, while summers turn hot. Snow is light, and the air is dry, with little rain or melted snow over a year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Northland Pioneer College and the Holbrook Unified School District, along with Safeway. Unemployment across Navajo County has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Petrified Forest National Park is the best known of the nearby places, a national park a longer drive away. The Puerco River runs in or beside town, and farther out the Painted Desert Inn is a tourist attraction, also a longer drive away. Agate House Pueblo and Puerco Ruin and Petroglyphs are archaeological sites for those who like to see how people lived long ago, each reached by a longer drive.
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- 1,849households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Navajo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Navajo County had 27,910 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 50° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 62°. About 3 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holbrook weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Holbrook
- Northland Pioneer CollegeTwo-year college486
- Holbrook Unified District (4389)School district273FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores74
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 104 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holbrook’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 Navajo County and the Show Low, AZ metro.
Holbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holbrook$197,993
- 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.
- Holbrook15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Holbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.