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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −2.3% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, −18.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.3% YoY while the median home got up 4.4% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.5%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $339K purchase rents for $1,477/mo: 0.44% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: Studio (rent only, no matching sale price), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (rent only, no matching sale price).
Sales here take about 34 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 2 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Manufactured (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 85741 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 36.5% of this ZIP's 14,022 occupied households, on a median household income of $76K.
| Measure | ZIP 85741 | Pima County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $76K | $70K | +$6K |
| Below Poverty Level | 8.3% | 14.3% | -6.0% |
| Median Age | 36.80 | 39.80 | -3.00 |
| Total Population | 33,679 | 1,060,490 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.38 | 2.36 | +0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 63.5% | 65.2% | -1.7% |
| Worked From Home | 14.9% | 15.4% | -0.5% |
| Mean Commute | 28.00 | 24.30 | +3.70 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is up 1.0% to 1,060,490: residents under 18 are down 0.4% and those 65 and over are up 3.1%.
County median household income is $70K, 14.3% of residents are below the poverty level, 15.4% work from home.