West · Arizona · pop 1.7M
Phoenix, AZ
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in AZ, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,245 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,360 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,388 left over.
Expect summer highs near 106°F, winter lows around 46°F, and about 299 sunny days a year.
The job market looks healthy: 3.7% unemployment and 2.0% job growth over the past year.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The Phoenix fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,857/mo
Typical rent
$1,600/mo
Home value ÷ income
5.9×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,470/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,600/mo
- Median home value
- $425,000
- Median household income
- $72,000
- Population
- 1,650,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.7%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 2.0%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 730
- Property crime rate
- 3,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 106°F
- Avg. winter low
- 46°F
- Sunny days / year
- 299
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈139/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈18/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈48/yr
- Annual rain
- 8"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+5
- Int'l airport
- ≈4 mi
- Walkability
- 41/100
- Disaster risk
- 45/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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