Kearny, Arizona.
Typical home $159,693 (-4.5% in a year). Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$380 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,485 -4%
- $167,178$159,693 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,344 -7%
- $172,037$159,693 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.
- Kearny$838
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kearny, AZ fell 4.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kearny, Pinal County, Arizona
Kearny is a town of 1,741 people in Pinal County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Pinal County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pinal 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kearny is a small town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values run on the modest side. Poverty is more common here than a number of nearby places might lead you to expect, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and snow and rain are both scarce, so the desert climate shapes much of daily life.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing many people. Few people work from home. Across Pinal County, some of the largest workplaces are Lucid Motors AMP1, an electric-vehicle plant, and the Florence Unified School District, and the county has been adding jobs even as unemployment has crept up from a year ago.
Things to do. The San Pedro River is a short drive away and makes an easy outing for anyone who likes time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Boyce Thompson Arboretum, a botanical garden, and to San Carlos Lake, a reservoir. Besh-Ba-Gowah, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive but worth the trip for those curious about the region's past.
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- 832households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Pinal County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pinal County had 79,977 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 62° and lows near 44°; warmest in July, with highs near 99° and lows near 77°. About 18 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Superior weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pinal County
- Lucid Motors AMP1Automobile manufacturing of electric vehicles3,711
- Florence Unified School District (4437)School district1,235FTE
- Arizona Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions1,117
- Maricopa Unified School District (4441)School district1,075FTE
- Pinal CountySheriffs' offices1,053
- Casa Grande Elementary District (4446)School district912FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage888
- CaesarsCasino840
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 182 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,046 people in all across the county; Kearny has none of its own. School districts come 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kearny’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Pinal County and the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
Kearny home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kearny$159,693
- 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.
- Kearny9
Zip codes with a Kearny address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kearny — 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.