Superior, Arizona.
Typical home $179,151 (-2.2% in a year). Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,062 -2%
- $183,213$179,151 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,491 -7%
- $193,642$179,151 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.
- Superior$940
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Superior, AZ fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Superior, Pinal County, Arizona
Superior is a town of 2,407 people in Pinal County. Half its households earn more than $45,030 a year and half less, against $80,266 across Pinal County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 government, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Superior is a small town in Pinal County with an older population than most of the country, and incomes that sit well below the county's. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, with December the coolest month, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Pinal County, some of the largest workplaces are Lucid Motors AMP1, the Florence Unified School District and Pinal County itself. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Boyce Thompson Arboretum, a botanical garden, lies in or beside town. White Canyon Wilderness, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Tonto National Monument, an archaeological site, and to Theodore Roosevelt Lake, a reservoir.
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- 1,253households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%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 62° and lows near 44°; warmest in July, with highs near 99° and lows near 77°. About 18 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Superior weather station, 2 miles 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; Superior 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Superior’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 Pinal County and the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
Superior home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Superior$179,151
- 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.
- Superior13
Zip codes with a Superior address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Superior — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.