85382Peoria, Arizona

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 85382.

54out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 29% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5189th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured37
GrowthTop 26% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured64
Housing affordability4933rd of 6,685 ZIP areas measured63
Climate6104th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured58
Physical resilience4188th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured47
AccessTop 15% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured99
Economic stability4015th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured55
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.1% and the Opportunity signal places 85382 in the bottom 16%.

1,321 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 5% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

A major airport is 10 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
43,729
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$91,525
Top 25% nationally
Density
4,409/sq mi
9.9 sq mi of land
Median age
44.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Peoria
Arizona
Metro area
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
Nearest major airport
DVT
10 mi · Phoenix Deer Valley
Median home value
$438,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.1% is lower than 25% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 3.9% over the past year, to 95,383 employed residents.

39% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 78% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$8,129$91,525Top 25%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,346$45,934Top 26%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.9%Bottom 36%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.5 minTop 35%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher38.6%Top 22%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment95,383Top 36%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.5%Bottom 15%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.9%Bottom 4%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force100,490Top 35%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation58.8%Bottom 43%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$69,630Top 41%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$51,380Top 44%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)1.1%Top 4%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate5.1%Top 25%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202493k81k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $91,525 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers81,520$98,610
Retail Salespersons69,060$35,960
Customer Service Representatives68,930$46,410
Home Health and Personal Care Aides57,940$36,930
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand56,420$44,950
Fast Food and Counter Workers54,900$34,540

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Peoria, AZ, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 18.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Sunrise Mountain High SchoolPeoria Unified School District (4237)1,89620.0
Sunset Heights Elementary SchoolPeoria Unified School District (4237)98721.5
Parkridge ElementaryPeoria Unified School District (4237)89520.3
Frontier Elementary SchoolPeoria Unified School District (4237)84617.6
Desert Harbor Elementary SchoolPeoria Unified School District (4237)77917.7
Apache Elementary SchoolPeoria Unified School District (4237)75118.8
Coyote Hills Elementary SchoolPeoria Unified School District (4237)69512.0
Student Choice High School · charterGAR LLC dba Student Choice High School (78997)20150.3
West-MEC - Sunrise Mountain High SchoolWest-MEC - Western Maricopa Education Center (80923)0

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Arizona’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 5% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,939 takes 25% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.8 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Cost of living
104.7

Prices here run about 5% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
25.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,939
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$438,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index104.7Top 30%of 6,0712023
Home price to income4.79Top 18%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate69.7%Bottom 29%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±75819,581Top 4%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$90$1,939Top 9%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,305$438,300Top 17%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.4%Top 13%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.6%Bottom 44%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
64/ 100
Top 26% of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 6.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
1,321
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
6.7
Top 21% nationally
Year over year
+5%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
38.8%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Peoria, AZ, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 104°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 8.9 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 77, in the Moderate band, and about 73 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PHOENIX DEER VALLEY MUNI AP, 9.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index113.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation8.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high104°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100732024 calendar year
Median air quality index77.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing39°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
77
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
113
90th percentile index
Days above 100
73
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

47 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, heat wave and wildfire.

Heat waveModerate
Inland floodingElevated
WildfireModerate
HailModerate
LandslideModerate
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, drought, earthquake, lightning, tornado, winter weather, hurricane.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Maricopa County records 5.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 38.3 per 100,000 residents in Maricopa County.

Homicide
5.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
38.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
16.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Maricopa County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 85382 rather than 85382 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 10 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Phoenix Deer ValleyDVT10 mi8,196 ft
Phoenix GoodyearGYR18 mi8,500 ft
ScottsdaleSDL20 mi8,249 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

85382 vs Peoria

How this ZIP area compares with Peoria as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

85382
Peoria
Median household income
$91,525
vs
$95,815
Per capita income
$45,934
vs
$47,834
Population density
4,409/sq mi
vs
1,114/sq mi
Median home value
$438,300
vs
$463,600
Median gross rent
$1,939
vs
$1,843
Homeownership rate
69.7%
vs
76.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
38.6%
vs
36.3%
Poverty rate
7.9%
vs
8.4%
Median age
44.6
vs
41.7

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.