Scenic, Arizona.
Typical home $460,341 (+5.2% in a year). Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,309 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,592 +5%
- $437,749$460,341 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,010 +18%
- $390,330$460,341 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.
- Scenic$2,416
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Scenic, AZ rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scenic, Mohave County, Arizona
The Census does not count Scenic on its own, so the figures here are Mohave County's. Half the county's households earn more than $57,684 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Mohave County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mohave County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scenic is a small community in Mohave County, in northwestern Arizona, where the population is older than in most of the country. Most homes across Mohave County are lived in by their owners, and fewer households rent than in many parts of the United States. Winters can be cold, summers are very hot, snow is rare, and rain comes only lightly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Unemployment across Mohave County has risen over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged down. Commutes tend to be short, and few people work from home, which is fewer than in much of the country.
Things to do. The Grand Canyon Skywalk, one of the best-known tourist attractions in the region, is a longer drive away. Mount Tipton Wilderness, a protected area of open land, is also a longer drive away and suits anyone who enjoys quiet walks in natural country.
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- 101,973households
- 53.6median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Mohave County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mohave County had 56,245 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 102° and lows near 77°. About 1 inches of snow and 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meadview 1W weather station, 27 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mohave County
- Kingman Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,561FTE
- Kingman Unified School District (79598)School district752FTE
- Mohave Community CollegeTwo-year college612
- Havasu Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital589FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters543
- Lake Havasu Unified District (4368)School district540FTE
- City of BullheadLegislative bodies480
- American Woodmark Coorporation, Kingman AZ PlantCabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing478
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 154 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,028 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mohave County, 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 Mohave County and the Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro.
Scenic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scenic$460,341
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 15 Scenic 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.
- Scenic6.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Scenic31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Scenic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scenic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.