West · Arizona · pop 523K
Mesa, AZ
Good 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 $1,488 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,260 left over.
Reported crime rates sit below most cities in this dataset.
Expect summer highs near 104°F, winter lows around 42°F, and about 296 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Mesa fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,985/mo
Typical rent
$1,750/mo
Home value ÷ income
5.9×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,560/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,750/mo
- Median home value
- $440,000
- Median household income
- $74,000
- Population
- 523,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.8%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 2.2%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 410
- Property crime rate
- 2,100
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 104°F
- Avg. winter low
- 42°F
- Sunny days / year
- 296
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈138/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈18/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈44/yr
- Annual rain
- 9"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+5
- Int'l airport
- ≈12 mi
- Walkability
- 38/100
- 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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