85375Sun City West, Arizona

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 85375.

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How this area ranks
Housing affordability6234th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured42
Climate6104th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured58
Physical resilience4188th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured47
AccessTop 38% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured95
Economic stability5682nd of 6,742 ZIP areas measured37
The quick read

Housing costs more relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 31% of median household income and the median home is 5.9 times it.

A typical July reaches 104°F and a typical January falls to 44°F, on thirty-year normals.

A major airport is 16 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
27,680
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$63,928
Bottom 37% nationally
Density
2,234/sq mi
12.4 sq mi of land
Median age
74.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Sun City West
Arizona
Metro area
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
Nearest major airport
DVT
16 mi · Phoenix Deer Valley
Median home value
$377,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 73% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,233$63,928Bottom 37%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,958$52,385Top 17%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.5%Bottom 33%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute24.4 minBottom 32%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher34.7%Top 27%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation14.3%Bottom 2%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
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202464k59k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $63,928 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.

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 $1,678 takes 31% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.9 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

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
31.5%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,678
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$377,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index104.7Top 30%of 6,0712023
Home price to income5.91Top 10%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate88.1%Top 23%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±67119,195Top 4%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$347$1,678Top 16%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,980$377,900Top 23%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income31.5%Top 4%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate14.5%Top 39%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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

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, 15.9 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 85375 rather than 85375 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 16 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Phoenix Deer ValleyDVT16 mi8,196 ft
Phoenix GoodyearGYR17 mi8,500 ft
Phoenix Sky Harbor IntlPHX26 mi11,489 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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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)
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
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.

85375 vs Sun City West

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

85375
Sun City West
Median household income
$63,928
vs
$63,685
Per capita income
$52,385
vs
$52,476
Population density
2,234/sq mi
vs
2,300/sq mi
Median home value
$377,900
vs
$377,800
Median gross rent
$1,678
vs
$1,672
Homeownership rate
88.1%
vs
88.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
34.7%
vs
34.7%
Poverty rate
7.5%
vs
7.6%
Median age
74.7
vs
74.8

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.