What is the population of Tolleson city?

Tolleson city has 7,233 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #78 of 467 in Arizona.

What is the median household income in Tolleson city?

Median household income in Tolleson city is $55,015 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Tolleson city?

Median gross rent is $1,258 a month and the median home value is $287,000, so rent absorbs about 27.4% of median household income.

Is Tolleson city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 5.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Tolleson city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 27.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Tolleson, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Tolleson, Arizona (Tolleson, AZ — Census place “Tolleson city”) is 7,233 residents, ranking #78 of 467 places in Arizona. Median household income is $55,015, the median home is worth $287,000 and median gross rent runs $1,258 a month. Looking for the Tolleson Arizona ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Tolleson, AZ: 85353.

Population: 7,233Tolleson city residents
Median household income: $55,015Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $287,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,258Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 51.6%Owner-occupied households

Tolleson ZIP codes (Arizona)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Tolleson.

The Tolleson AZ ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

85353

What the numbers mean in Tolleson city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Tolleson city median would spend about 27.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 5.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 30.8% of residents and 51.6% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Tolleson city, AZ in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Tolleson city is a mid-size town in Arizona, with 7,233 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #78 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 35.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Tolleson city earn a median of $55,015 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538 and 13% below 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 30.8% 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 Tolleson city is valued at $287,000, 5.4% below the national figure and 18% above the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,258 a month, 10.5% below the national figure, or roughly $15,096 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 27.4% 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 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 51.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Tolleson city?: Tolleson city has 7,233 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #78 of 467 in Arizona.
What is the median household income in Tolleson city?: Median household income in Tolleson city is $55,015 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Tolleson city?: Median gross rent is $1,258 a month and the median home value is $287,000, so rent absorbs about 27.4% of median household income.
Is Tolleson city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 5.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Tolleson city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 27.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Tolleson city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.