Parker, Arizona.
Typical home $350,374 (-2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,027 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,372 -2%
- $358,746$350,374 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,065 +17%
- $300,309$350,374 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.
- Parker$1,839
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Parker, AZ fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parker, La Paz County, Arizona
Parker is a town of 3,417 people in La Paz County. Half its households earn more than $66,273 a year and half less, against $49,478 across La Paz County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in La Paz County was 7.1% in August 2026, and the county had 5.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parker is a small town in La Paz County, Arizona, with a population on the younger side compared with many towns. Household incomes run well above the county's, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Getting to work takes little time here, and some residents work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, government, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Parker are the Parker Unified School District, Walmart and La Paz Regional Hospital. Unemployment in La Paz County is somewhat higher than a year earlier, though the county has more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Several protected areas lie a longer drive away, including Buckskin Mountain State Park, Cattail Cove State Park and Lake Havasu State Park. The Blythe Intaglios, an archaeological site, are also a longer drive away. Winters are mild, summers are very hot, and rain and snow are scarce.
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- 1,407households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 11 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. La Paz County had 6,695 jobs in 2025, 5.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 67° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 108° and lows near 81°. About 5 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parker weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Parker
- Parker Unified School District (4510)School district269FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters202
- La PAZ Regional HospitalCritical access hospital197FTE
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services196
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores86
- Indian AffairsFederal government · Department of the Interior31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 288 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parker’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 La Paz County.
Parker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parker$350,374
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Parker listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Parker15.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parker56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Parker7
Zip codes with a Parker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.