Paulden, Arizona.
Typical home $435,560 (+1.4% in a year). Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,292 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,841 +1%
- $429,719$435,560 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,739 +17%
- $373,822$435,560 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.
- Paulden$2,286
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Paulden, AZ rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Paulden, Yavapai County, Arizona
Paulden, in Yavapai County, had 5,567 people in the 2020 census. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paulden is a small community in Yavapai County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than is typical across the county. Incomes in the county run on the modest side for a state with expensive cities, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with lows that dip below freezing in December, and summers turn properly hot by July.
Work. Residents 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 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Granite Creek, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Watson Lake and Lynx Lake, both good for a day by the water, and to the Prescott National Forest, a large protected area for hiking and camping. For something indoors, the Sharlot Hall Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,041households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
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 52° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chino Valley weather station, 9 miles 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; Paulden 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of PauldenRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paulden’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 Yavapai County and the Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro.
Paulden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paulden$435,560
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Paulden 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.
- Paulden28.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Paulden31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Paulden7
Zip codes with a Paulden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paulden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.