Pima, Arizona.
Typical home $335,255 (+3.4% in a year). Safford, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$964 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,896 +3%
- $324,360$335,255 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,319 +24%
- $269,936$335,255 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.
- Pima$1,760
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Pima, AZ rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pima, Graham County, Arizona
Pima is a town of 2,847 people in Graham County. Half its households earn more than $97,960 a year and half less, against $67,325 across Graham County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Graham County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pima is a small town in Graham County, Arizona, and household incomes here run well above the county's, with fewer residents living below the poverty line than most places. Homes are typically worth a good deal, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers get very hot, and the rainfall is light.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Graham County, some of the largest workplaces are Eastern Arizona College, Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center and Walmart. The county has added jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year earlier. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. A short drive away, Cluff Ranch Ponds is a reservoir and Frye Mesa Reservoir is another, both good for time near the water. Point of Pines Sites, also a short drive off, is an archaeological site. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Roper Lake State Park, a protected area with a lake.
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- 1,127households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Graham County had 11,084 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 61° and lows near 30°; warmest in June, with highs near 100° and lows near 63°. About 9 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Safford Ag Ctr weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Graham County
- San Carlos Apache HealthcareGeneral hospital820FTE
- Eastern Arizona CollegeTwo-year college730
- Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of PrisonsCorrectional institutions564
- Mt. Graham Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital389FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters371
- Safford Unified District (4218)School district281FTE
- Arizona Dept. of Corrections-SaffordCorrectional institutions243
- Thatcher Unified District (4219)School district189FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,909 people in all across the county; Pima has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), 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
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pima’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Graham County and the Safford, AZ metro.
Pima home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pima$335,255
- 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.
- Pima16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pima5
Zip codes with a Pima address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pima — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.