Tonto Basin, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Tonto Basin CDP is a small town in Arizona, with 1,593 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #174 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 62% of them. The median age here is 70.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Tonto Basin CDP earn a median of $50,871 a year, 35.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% below the $63,545 median for the 206 Arizona cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 18% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Tonto Basin CDP is valued at $253,400, 16.5% below the national figure and 4% above the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 88.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 70.2 puts Tonto Basin CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

The Census withheld gross rent for Tonto Basin CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.