Williams, Arizona.
Typical home $442,025 (+0.8% in a year). Flagstaff, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,334 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,441 +1%
- $438,585$442,025 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,606 +21%
- $365,419$442,025 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.
- Williams$2,320
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Williams, AZ rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williams, Coconino County, Arizona
Williams is a city of 3,202 people in Coconino County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Coconino County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Coconino County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williams is a small city in Coconino County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is typical across the country. Winters are cold, with a lot of snow, and summers are mild rather than hot. Typical home values run well above what the county's household incomes would suggest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel, the Forest Service and Williams Unified District. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park and zoo, and the Arizona State Railroad Museum are both in or beside town. Cataract Lake is also close at hand, and Kaibab Lake is a short drive away for time by the water. The Museum of Northern Arizona is a longer drive away.
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- 1,374households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Coconino County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coconino County had 66,297 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 54°. About 65 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williams weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williams
- Grand Canyon Railway HotelHotels except casino hotels and motels292
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture116
- Williams Unified District (4193)School district103FTE
- City of WilliamsCity and town managers' offices100
- LP's ExcavatingExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors80
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 472 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williams’ census tracts, 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 Coconino County and the Flagstaff, AZ metro.
Williams home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williams$442,025
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Williams listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Williams26.47%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williams108
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Williams15
Zip codes with a Williams address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williams — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.