Cornfields, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Cornfields CDP is a very small community in Arizona, with 373 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #310 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 33% of them. The median age here is 25.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Cornfields CDP earn a median of $22,098 a year, 71.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 65% below the $63,545 median for the 206 Arizona cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 61.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cornfields CDP is valued at $38,600, 87.3% below the national figure and 84% below the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,278 a month, 9.1% below the national figure, or roughly $15,336 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 69.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 76.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Cornfields CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 69.4% of median income while homes cost only 1.7× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 25.7 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.