Glendale, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Glendale city is a mid-size city in Arizona, with 250,193 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #6 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 34.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Glendale city earn a median of $70,139 a year, 10.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 10% above the $63,545 median for the 206 Arizona cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 16.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Glendale city is valued at $347,000, 14.4% above the national figure and 43% above the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,397 a month, essentially level with the national figure, or roughly $16,764 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 57.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.