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SheetAZ-PRESCOTT-VALLEY-AZ · Prescott Valley, AZ 48,048 pop · income 51st pct · 72 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Prescott Valley
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Prescott Valley on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fort Pierce · lowest
46,745
Fort Pierce · lowest
46,745 median HH income
41.3% of the leader · rank #1
Shady Spring · near
70,792
Shady Spring · near
70,792 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #2
Prescott Vall… · this city
70,793
Prescott Vall… · this city
70,793 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #3
Hortonville · near
70,795
Hortonville · near
70,795 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #4
Bellwood · near
70,795
Bellwood · near
70,795 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #5
Wheelersburg · near
70,795
Wheelersburg · near
70,795 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #6
Catalina Foot… · highest
113,201
Catalina Foot… · highest
113,201 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Prescott Valley on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 48,048.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Prescott Valley - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Prescott Valley places in the 51st percentile for household income and the 64th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
51st
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
64th
percentile, median rent
64th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Prescott Valley, AZ
Prescott Valley is a small city in Arizona, home to 48,048 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Prescott Valley brings in $70,793 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.0%. Prescott Valley's housing stock carries a median value of $376,300, and the median resident age is 47.3 years. Educational attainment runs 24.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 50.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 548 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 24% from five years earlier. Prescott Valley reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 993.8 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Arizona tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Arizona scores 100.7 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,419 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Arizona's average monthly utility costs around $215 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 84.5 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Prescott Valley's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to housing and income to within-city variation to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Prescott Valley, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Prescott Valley?
The NCES join finds 16 public schools within the city match. 24.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
How far does income reach against housing in Prescott Valley?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What can 72 Census tracts reveal inside Prescott Valley?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 72 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Prescott Valley?
Within Arizona, the closest population matches are Oro Valley (47,595 residents, $105,342 income); Prescott (46,744 residents, $69,151 income); Sierra Vista (45,203 residents, $69,783 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are San Luis Obispo, CA (48,039 residents); Fort Pierce, FL (48,094 residents); Minot, ND (47,922 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Prescott Valley?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
12.3%
Drive alone
77.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 19,424 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Prescott Valley?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 993.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 56% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
768.8
Violent rate
225.0
Total reported rate
993.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Prescott Valley growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,479 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 548 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+11.7%
2025 estimate
52,423
2020 estimate
46,944
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 8.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.7 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
D
City profile score · Prescott Valley, AZ
45/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income C-
$70,793
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime D
225 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living F
100.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Prescott Valley profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 50/100 (C-) · $70,793
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 8.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 46/100 (D) · 24.0%
Violent crime: 44/100 (D) · 225 /100k
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Where Prescott Valley sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Prescott Valley's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Prescott Valley highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Prescott Valley, AZ (this city): home $376,300, crime 994/100k
San Luis Obispo, CA : home $896,500, crime 3,093/100k
Minot, ND : home $254,400, crime 1,722/100k
Charleston, WV : home $187,300, crime 3,663/100k
Cleveland, TN : home $241,800, crime 2,837/100k
Oro Valley, AZ : home $440,400, crime 1,200/100k
Prescott, AZ : home $528,500, crime 1,452/100k
Sierra Vista, AZ : home $239,000, crime 1,881/100k
Bullhead City, AZ : home $196,900, crime 2,648/100k
Marana, AZ : home $380,100, crime 1,466/100k
How does Prescott Valley compare to other US cities?
Where Prescott Valley sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income51% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
Safety64% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Arizona alone, Prescott Valley ranks #14 of 61 Arizona cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Prescott Valley against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Arizona only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Arizona-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Prescott Valley near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Prescott Valley ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Prescott Valley only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#97 of 333
71st percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#58 of 327
82nd percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#209 of 393
46th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#118 of 394
70th percentile in Arizona
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Arizona only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
51st percentile nationally for median household income · 64th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Prescott Valley's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Prescott Valley's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Prescott Valley's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$376,30025th percentilemore affordable than 25% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,344 of 15,516
More affordable than 14% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,750 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.3×, Prescott Valley sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,344 of 15,516 and #2,750 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$70,793Prescott Valley, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Prescott Valley, AZ median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Prescott Valley, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
48,048
Median Income
$70,793
Median Home Value
$376,300
Median Age
47.3
Poverty Rate
8.0%
Labor force participation
50.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
993.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
225.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
768.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
16
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Prescott Valley's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
46,944 residents
2021
48,166 residents
2022
49,077 residents
2023
50,089 residents
2024
51,281 residents
2025
52,423 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
548
housing units authorized
Single-Family
430
detached homes
Multifamily
118
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
720
454
266
$157.7M
2020
633
515
118
$151.6M
2021
832
534
298
$193.3M
2022
1,012
567
445
$315.3M
2023
481
353
128
$152.7M
2024
548
430
118
$132.8M
Permit volume decreased 24% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.5%
Carpool
7.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.8%
Work from Home
12.3%
Other
0.7%
Based on 19,424 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Arizona statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $215
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Arizona at $215 (electricity about $131 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Arizona statewide averages, not a meter reading for Prescott Valley. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Arizona's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.7 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Prescott Valley is $1,419/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Arizona statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 84.5 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Arizona statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Prescott Valley sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Prescott Valley compares to similar-size Arizona cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.