Zip lookup · AZ

85257
Scottsdale, Arizona.

Scottsdale, Maricopa County, AZ · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro · population 29,812

What it costs per month · 85257 $2,869/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,568 (+120%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $7,576 +1%
$539,047$546,622 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $46,690 +9%
$499,932$546,622 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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 85257 $2,869 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 85257$2,869
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.

Typical home values in zip 85257 rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 85257 rose 2.5% over the past year — in step with the nation.

Owning the typical home in zip 85257 runs $1,681/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,971 in Oct 2023.

That is $3,654 a month against $1,973 rent: a $2,869 mortgage payment, plus $199 property tax and $585 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 85257

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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $3,654 Renting $1,973 Mortgage only $2,869
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$3,654
  • Renting$1,973
  • Mortgage only$2,869

Property tax · $199/mo 0.44% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Maricopa County, AZ

Insurance & upkeep · $585/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.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Scottsdale, AZ — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,973 as of Sep 2026
+2.5%year on year
Typical home value $546,622 as of Sep 2026
+1.4%year on year

Asking rent — 85257

Against the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro and the national benchmark.

$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 85257 $1,973 Phoenix $1,720 United States $1,932
$1,250 $1,500 $1,750 $2,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 85257$1,973
  • Phoenix$1,720
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 85257

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 85257 $546,622 Phoenix $441,097 United States $366,157
$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 85257$546,622
  • Phoenix$441,097
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 81 zips in range — sorting picks from all 81.

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2.1 85251 Scottsdale 40,780 $1,992 $520,556
2.6 85281 Tempe 72,762 $1,616 $390,150
4.2 85008 Phoenix 59,716 $1,404 $368,196
4.3 85201 Mesa 51,400 $1,390 $355,411
4.8 85250 Scottsdale 15,394 $2,421 $616,702
4.9 85282 Tempe 53,624 $1,540 $456,769
5.9 85018 Phoenix 37,297 $1,648 $980,525
6.1 85202 Mesa 38,750 $1,310 $389,081
6.2 85253 Paradise Valley 17,904 $1,897 $3,339,008
6.4 85034 Phoenix 4,854 $1,440 $280,495
6.5 85203 Mesa 38,035 $1,291 $443,809
6.6 85210 Mesa 39,015 $1,418 $357,946
6.9 85283 Tempe 47,459 $1,574 $446,828
7.0 85258 Scottsdale 25,545 $2,151 $859,142
7.4 85016 Phoenix 37,074 $1,668 $516,550
7.6 85040 Phoenix 34,117 $1,857 $317,936
7.7 85006 Phoenix 21,905 $1,499 $402,532
8.4 85213 Mesa 36,836 $1,629 $550,216
8.7 85204 Mesa 65,155 $1,376 $387,919
8.8 85014 Phoenix 25,911 $1,461 $439,608
8.8 85284 Tempe 19,492 $2,807 $705,540
9.0 85004 Phoenix 12,408 $1,776 $415,431
9.4 85012 Phoenix 8,704 $1,535 $641,838
9.5 85003 Phoenix 10,875 $1,757 $575,316
9.7 85233 Gilbert 39,077 $2,173 $516,489
9.8 85028 Phoenix 18,752 $3,174 $705,739
9.9 85224 Chandler 47,963 $1,735 $448,297
10.0 85044 Phoenix 39,347 $1,554 $473,281
10.2 85260 Scottsdale 39,896 $1,983 $714,950
10.2 85007 Phoenix 13,575 $1,375 $400,315

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.