Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety17#13,037/15,637
Economy14#13,383/15,631
Housing87#1,946/14,977
Health15#13,305/15,609
Healthcare63#5,751/15,650
Environment28#11,058/15,453
Education25#11,743/15,649
Infrastructure16#13,109/15,650
Community39#9,608/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,490/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Avra Valley, Arizona ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pima County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Rent as share of income · low22.7%
95/100Arizona 30.8%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Comfortable days · high34.8%
94/100Arizona 31.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPima County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,812 /100k
90/100Arizona 2,070 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePima County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.0 µg/m³
90/100Arizona 6.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPima County value
Mammography screening · high54.0%
88/100Arizona 44.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePima County value
Distance to an airport · low12 mi
82/100Arizona 30 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauPima County value

Weaknesses

Hot days · high153 days
1/100Arizona 96 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPima County value
Unemployment rate · high13.4%
4/100Arizona 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Drug overdose deaths · high36.4 /100k
5/100Arizona 35.9 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataPima County value
Frequent mental distress · high22.2%
5/100Arizona 17.4%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Median Air Quality Index · high54
7/100Arizona 642025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPima County value
Poor or fair health · high26.9%
12/100Arizona 21.2%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
55.1% (2015-2019) → 29.7% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
38.4% (2015-2019) → 22.7% (2020-2024)
−16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
17.2% (2015-2019) → 7.4% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateWorsening
3.8% (2015-2019) → 13.4% (2020-2024)
+9.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 2.9× (2020-2024)
+47%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
High school diploma or higherImproving
83.7% (2015-2019) → 93.0% (2020-2024)
+9.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Avra Valley, Arizona improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Uninsured−9.8 points17.2% → 7.4%

Declined1

Price / income+0.9×2.0× → 2.9×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Avra Valley, Arizona between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	36.7 min2015-2019	33.6 min2020-2024	−3.1 min	Within the margin of error	80%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.0%2015-2019	13.0%2020-2024	+2 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Broadband subscriptions	89.6%2015-2019	87.8%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Child poverty rate	29.5%2015-2019	22.6%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Effective property tax rate	0.99%2015-2019	0.67%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	77%
High school diploma or higher	83.7%2015-2019	93.0%2020-2024	+9.2 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	25%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3772015-2019	0.4452020-2024	+0.068	Within the margin of error	11%
Median household income	$46,8932015-2019	$54,1322020-2024	+15%	Within the margin of error	24%
Poverty rate	20.0%2015-2019	18.8%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	38.4%2015-2019	22.7%2020-2024	−16 points	Within the margin of error	97%
Rent-burdened households	55.1%2015-2019	29.7%2020-2024	−25 points	Within the margin of error	96%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.2%2015-2019	7.4%2020-2024	−9.8 points	Improved	96%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Avra Valley, Arizona five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Avra Valley, Arizona in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Avra Valley, Arizona itself moved +7.6 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

6,277 residents (±1,301)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 10–19 women (−4.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

6,277 residents (±1,301)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

White63%3,933
Black0.4%†27
Hispanic or Latino20%†1,283

Education

4,095 residents (±640)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

No high school diploma7.0%†287
High school or GED41%1,668
Some college29%†1,190

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

2,319 households (±300)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

Under $25k15%†353
$25k–50k28%†652
$50k–75k22%†513
$75k–100k13%†292
$100k–150k14%†336
$150k–200k5.1%†119
$200k or more2.3%†54

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $150k–200k (+4.5 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

2,319 households (±300)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

Own75%1,750
Rent25%†569

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

482 households (±279)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

Under $75063%†306
$750–1,0006.0%†29
$1,000–1,50030%†147

Home values

1,750 homes (±252)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

Under $150k42%†738
$150k–250k37%†651
$250k–400k16%†285

Age of homes

2,442 homes (±293)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

2010 or later4.7%†114
2000–200932%†773
1980–199945%1,091

Size of homes

2,442 homes (±293)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

Studio0.5%†12
1 bedroom5.3%†129
2 bedrooms27%†668

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,390 workers (±580)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

Drive alone81%1,942
Carpool14%†330
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.2%†4
Bike0.0%0
Work from home4.1%†98
Other0.7%†16

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Drive alone (+17.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

2,292 workers (±578)

Avra Valley, Arizona
Arizona share

Under 15 min9.9%†227
15–29 min31%†712
30–44 min28%†645

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Tucson, AZ

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Pima County, the county holding most of Avra Valley's residents.

Pima County has 21,381 employer establishments, 201 for every 10,000 residents (0.81× the US rate of 248; 0.92× Arizona's), with 341,481 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,983. The Census Bureau also counts 82,177 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 21,381; 82,177 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 201; US 248 · Arizona 219
Paid employees: 341,481
Average annual pay: $54,983; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Pima County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	2,158	20.3	0.97×About typical	28,860	$73,866	4,753
Restaurants and other eating places	1,656	15.5	0.85×About typical	36,585	$22,997	387
Lessors of real estate	1,409	13.2	1.07×About typical	5,188	$55,125	8,225
Specialty trade contractors	1,345	12.6	0.82×About typical	16,448	$57,209	4,948
Limited-service restaurants	810	7.6	0.95×About typical	17,465	$20,548	195
Offices of physicians	726	6.8	1.05×About typical	10,042	$108,069	932
Services to buildings and dwellings	700	6.6	0.97×About typical	6,944	$35,250	5,423
Real estate agents and brokers	691	6.5	1.33×More than typical	944	$68,213	2,963
Offices of other health practitioners	629	5.9	0.97×About typical	3,430	$46,598	2,098
Full-service restaurants	606	5.7	0.74×Fewer than typical	15,606	$26,503	123
Building equipment contractors	578	5.4	0.90×About typical	6,817	$59,165	890
Construction of buildings	556	5.2	0.69×Fewer than typical	5,829	$87,727	2,387

Rank places for an industry Open Pima County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,065,239 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $2.1M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Avra Valley, Arizona: $332 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2.1M; +393% vs FY2025
Per resident: $332; US $1,994
Sole-source: 85%; US 30%
Single offer: 14%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$1.8M84%
U.S. Special Operations Command$175.2K8.4%
Defense Logistics Agency$101.7K4.9%
Departmental Offices$36.2K1.7%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$13.4K0.6%
Federal Acquisition Service$1,1410.1%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$1,0190.0%

Top recipients

MANAGEMENT & TRAINING CORPORATION$1.8M84%
WIN WIN AVIATION, INC.$175.2K8.4%
PRO FLIGHT GEAR LLC$115.1K5.5%
HILLSBORO AVIATION, INC.$36.2K1.7%
FEDERAL CONTRACTS LLC$1,1410.1%

Spending by fiscal year

178.9KFY2017
58KFY2018
120.4KFY2019
299.7KFY2020
402.8KFY2021
394.2KFY2022
520.6KFY2023
367.4K

Top industries (NAICS)

Investigation and security services · 5616$1.8M84%
Nonscheduled air transportation · 4812$211.4K10%
Audio and video equipment manufacturing · 3343$50.3K2.4%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$48.2K2.3%
Communications equipment manufacturing · 3342$13.4K0.6%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$2,939

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Avra Valley, Arizona, so they do not add up across cities.

Avra Valley, Arizona's figures are part of those of Pima County, AZ ($13.1B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Avra Valley is mostly in Pima County.

See federal money in Pima County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Avra Valley, Arizona is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Pima County48100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tucson, AZ55

Other cities and towns in Pima County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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