Skull Valley, Arizona.
. Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,161 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
Living in Skull Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona
The Census does not count Skull Valley on its own, so the figures here are Yavapai County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,613 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Skull Valley sits in Yavapai County, in the high desert of central Arizona, in a quiet rural setting. Across Yavapai County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is older than most Americans. Winters bring cold nights and some snow, while summers are warm.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Yavapai County, unemployment has risen over the past year, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Sharlot Hall Museum is a local museum a longer drive away, and the Prescott Elks Theater and Performing Arts Center is a theatre also a longer drive away. Watson Lake, a lake, and Prescott National Forest, a protected area, are both a longer drive away.
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- 111,157households
- 55.1median age
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 14%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 90° and lows near 61°. About 10 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Prescott weather station, 18 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. 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Yavapai County, 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.
Skull Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Skull Valley6
Zip codes with a Skull Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Skull Valley — 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.