Nutrioso, Arizona.
Typical home $446,516 (-0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$374 (+19%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $3,344 -1%
- $449,859$446,516 since Sep 2025
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.
- Nutrioso$2,344
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Nutrioso, AZ fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona
Nutrioso, in Apache County, had 39 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Apache County was 8.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Apache County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nutrioso is a small community in the White Mountains of northeastern Arizona, in Apache County. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with a good deal of snow, while summers are warm. Rain is modest, and the high country setting is quite unlike the desert found across much of the state.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in local government. Others work in shops or in the building trades. In a town this size, work is usually close to home and among the people you see every day.
Things to do. Hulsey Lake is in or beside town, so it is the nearest place for an outing. The Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests, a protected area a longer drive away, offer a wide stretch of forest land. Sunrise Park Resort, a ski area also a longer drive away, is a place people go when the snow arrives.
Report a mistake
- 100%below the poverty line
What people in Apache County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Apache County had 16,853 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 47°. About 45 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alpine weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Apache County
- Fort Defiance Indian HospitalGeneral hospital1,304FTE
- Chinle Comprehensive Care FacilityGeneral hospital1,276FTE
- Navajo Tribal Utility AuthorityDistribution of electric power923
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services660
- Chinle Unified District (4158)School district499FTE
- Dine CollegeUniversity or college268
- Sage Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital253FTE
- Window Rock Unified District (4154)School district243FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,722 people in all across the county; Nutrioso has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- WildfireVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nutrioso’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Apache County.
Nutrioso home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nutrioso$446,516
- 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.
- Nutrioso13
Zip codes with a Nutrioso address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nutrioso — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.