Sedona, Arizona.
Typical home $891,380 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $2,612 (+3.2%). Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,689 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,932 +1%
- $885,449$891,380 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,578 +17%
- $758,802$891,380 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.
- Sedona$4,679
- 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 Sedona, AZ rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Sedona, AZ rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Sedona runs $3,326/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,729 in May 2024.
That is $5,939 a month against $2,612 rent: a $4,679 mortgage payment, plus $306 property tax and $954 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Sedona
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,939
- Renting$2,612
- Mortgage only$4,679
Property tax · $306/mo 0.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Yavapai County, AZ
Insurance & upkeep · $954/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Sedona, Yavapai County, Arizona
Sedona is a city of 9,684 people in Yavapai County. Half its households earn more than $73,738 a year and half less, against $69,613 across Yavapai County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% 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 residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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. Sedona is a small city whose residents skew older, with a median age well above the national one, and most people own the homes they live in. Incomes run a little higher than across Yavapai County, and adults here are far more likely than most to hold a four-year degree. Homes and rents here cost a good deal more than is typical, so the place tends to suit people who already own or have settled finances. Winters are cool and summers are hot: December days stay mild with cold nights, July is very warm, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Sedona include Safeway, the Sedona-Oak Creek school district, and the Los Abrigados resort and spa. Unemployment across Yavapai County has risen over the past year, and the county has seen a slight drop in the number of jobs. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Red Rock State Park, Slide Rock State Park and the Munds Mountain Wilderness are all protected areas a short drive away, good for walking and time outdoors. Coconino National Forest, also a short drive, surrounds much of the area. For a longer outing, Montezuma Castle National Monument is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 4,917households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 35%work from home
What residents 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 58° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 68°. About 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sedona weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedona
- Sedona125
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores120
- Sedona-Oak Creek JUSD #9 (4467)School district89FTE
- WatertonHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities86
- Hilton Grand Vacation Inc.75
- HRC Sedona Pinion PointeResort hotels without casinos67
- Lodging Dynamics Hospitality GroupHotel management services58
- Hilton Grand Vacation Inc.53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 745 people in all. 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of SedonaRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sedona’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Sedona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sedona$891,380
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sedona listings, and the typical home goes pending in 29 days — 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.
- Sedona22.91%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Sedona29
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sedona248
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sedona60
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Sedona$886,564
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Sedona96.96%
Zip codes with a Sedona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sedona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Sedona
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86336 | Sedona | 11,381 | $2,774 | $973,076 |
| 86351 | Sedona | 6,721 | $2,621 | $782,199 |