What salary do you need to live in Sierra Vista, AZ?

Rent, home values and prices in Sierra Vista

Renters in Sierra Vista pay a median $927 a month for two bedrooms. Size matters: one bedroom is $761, three bedrooms $1,176, so going from the smallest to the largest of the three adds $4,980 a year.

Buying is the other half of the housing picture: owners put the median home in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ at $218,300. With median household income at $59,742, a typical home costs 3.7× a typical income, close to the middle of the range across US metros.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 89.2 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Sierra Vista has the buying power of roughly $112,054 at national average prices.

The salary lines for a two-bedroom in Sierra Vista

For two bedrooms, $98,000 is where Sierra Vista turns Comfortable. Below that, $49,000 marks the start of Okay and $25,000 the start of Tight; under $25,000 the score reads Stretched. Rent at the Comfortable line is 11% of gross pay.

Royal, the top band, starts at $255,000. At that income rent is 4% of pay and the median home 0.9× income.

Nothing here is a separate rule of thumb; plug any of these incomes into the calculator with two bedrooms and Sierra Vista shows the matching grade.

Sierra Vista at four common salaries

At $75,000 home size barely changes the picture: one, two and three bedrooms all grade Okay, with scores from 54 to 60.

The two-bedroom column turns Comfortable at the $100,000 row. One row up, $75,000 scores 57.

Sierra Vista compared with every US metro

On price level Sierra Vista is 306th of 387 (1 = most expensive); on two-bedroom rent it is 346th, and on median home value 263rd. The two rankings agree, both falling in the least expensive quarter.

Texarkana, TX-AR ($930) and Charleston, WV ($924) bracket Sierra Vista on two-bedroom rent.

Sierra Vista in a Arizona context

Statewide, Arizona's median two-bedroom rent is $1,541 and its median home value $394,500. Sierra Vista's rent is −40% against that, and its home value −45%; the price parity is 89.2 versus 100.7 for the state.

On statewide medians, a two-bedroom budget reaches Comfortable at $221,000 — above Sierra Vista's $98,000 line.

The nearest matches in Arizona, judged on rent and price parity together, are Yuma, AZ, Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ, and Tucson, AZ.

Sierra Vista's median income on the scale

The median household in the metro earns $59,742 (ACS 2020-2024). Run through the calculator with two bedrooms, that scores 51, Okay. Reaching Comfortable would take $38,258 more than the median household earns. Statewide, the Arizona median household ($79,964) grades Tight on the state's own medians. Household income can include more than one earner, so a single salary of the same size goes less far.

These are pre-tax estimates from public statistics, not financial advice.