Jerome, Arizona.
. Prescott Valley-Prescott, 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 Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona
Jerome is a town of 464 people in Yavapai County. Unemployment in Yavapai County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yavapai 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jerome is a very small town, one of the smallest places on this site, set on a hillside in Yavapai County. Winters are cold, with the coldest days in December, and a little snow falls in most years. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. People here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Yavapai County, the largest workplaces include Yavapai Regional Medical Center, Yavapai College and the Veterans Health Administration. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there has risen over the past year.
Things to do. Jerome State Historic Park is in or beside town, a protected area that is easy to reach on foot or by a short drive. Tuzigoot National Monument is a short drive away, and Dead Horse Ranch State Park, also a protected area, is a short drive away too. For a longer outing, Montezuma Castle National Monument is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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What people in Yavapai County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yavapai County had 71,329 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 49° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 6 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jerome weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yavapai County
- Yavapai Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,665FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,253
- Yavapai CollegeUniversity or college718
- community Asset ManagmentManagers' offices, residential condominium650
- Humboldt Unified District (4469)School district624FTE
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-PrescottUniversity or college620
- Yavapai Regional Medical Center-EastGeneral medical and surgical hospitals613
- Enchantment ResortResort hotels without casinos604
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,937 people in all across the county; Jerome has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), colleges 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jerome’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 Yavapai County and the Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro.
Jerome 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.
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Zip codes with a Jerome address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jerome — 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.