San Manuel, Arizona.
Typical home $148,366 (-1.1% in a year). Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$421 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,714 -1%
- $150,080$148,366 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,376 +8%
- $137,990$148,366 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.
- San Manuel$779
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 48 years.
Typical home values in San Manuel, AZ fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in San Manuel, Pinal County, Arizona
San Manuel, in Pinal County, had 3,114 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Pinal County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. San Manuel is a small community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. A good share of residents live below the poverty line, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild by the standards of much of the country, with cool days and nights that stay above freezing on average, while summers are hot and snow is rare. Rain and melted snow are light across the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in government. The commute is long, and no one reports working from home. Across Pinal County, jobs grew over the past year, though unemployment is higher than a year earlier. Among the county's largest workplaces are Lucid Motors AMP1, an electric vehicle plant, the Florence Unified School District, and the county government itself.
Things to do. Oracle State Park is a protected area only a short drive away, and the nearest of the places worth a visit. A longer drive brings you to Saguaro National Park, one of the best known in the region, and to the San Pedro River. Mount Lemmon Ski Valley, also a longer drive off, is a ski area for a cold-weather outing.
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- 1,564households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pinal County had 79,977 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in June, with highs near 97° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Manuel weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pinal County
- Lucid Motors AMP1Automobile manufacturing of electric vehicles3,711
- Florence Unified School District (4437)School district1,235FTE
- Arizona Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions1,117
- Maricopa Unified School District (4441)School district1,075FTE
- Pinal CountySheriffs' offices1,053
- Casa Grande Elementary District (4446)School district912FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage888
- CaesarsCasino840
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 182 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,046 people in all across the county; San Manuel has none of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in San Manuel’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 Pinal County and the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
San Manuel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- San Manuel$148,366
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 San Manuel 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.
- San Manuel26.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- San Manuel25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a San Manuel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls San Manuel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.