Willcox, Arizona.
Typical home $198,408 (-2.3% in a year). Safford, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$433 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,686 -2%
- $203,094$198,408 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,042 +1%
- $196,367$198,408 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.
- Willcox$1,041
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Willcox, AZ fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willcox, Graham County, Arizona
Willcox is a city of 3,213 people in Graham County. Unemployment in Graham County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Graham County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willcox is a small city in southeastern Arizona, and the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold by Arizona standards, with only a dusting of snow now and then, while summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow are scarce through the year. Incomes across Graham County sit modestly, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, while few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining close behind, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in town include the Willcox Unified District, Northern Cochise Community Hospital and Safeway. Unemployment across Graham County is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Working from home is rare here.
Things to do. The Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame is in or beside town and tells the story of the region's ranching past. Willcox Playa, a lake bed, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fort Bowie is a historic fort a longer drive away, and The Thing? is a roadside tourist attraction, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,204households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Graham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Graham County had 11,084 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 60° and lows near 28°; warmest in June, with highs near 97° and lows near 59°. About 2 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willcox weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Willcox
- Willcox Unified District (4170)School district155FTE
- Northern Cochise Community HospitalCritical access hospital115FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores86
- CNR Industrial ServicesRailroad construction50
- SsvecElectric power distribution50
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 327 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willcox’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Graham County and the Safford, AZ metro.
Willcox home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willcox$198,408
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Willcox 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.
- Willcox23.79%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willcox26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Willcox address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willcox — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.