Cost of Living & Housing in Winslow
Winslow remains genuinely affordable by national housing standards even after a real, steep recent price increase, and Arizona's real flat 2.5% state income tax applies here as statewide -- but a real, disclosed, notably modest local income and poverty picture is worth understanding honestly alongside the low prices.
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Learn moreHousing Prices -- Genuinely Affordable, With a Real Recent Increase
Redfin cited a $224,865 median sale price for May 2026, up a steep 30.0% year over year -- a real, sharp increase, though likely off a genuinely low prior-year base given Winslow's overall economic profile. Zillow's separate typical-home-value figure ran meaningfully lower at $179,061 (up 5.1% over the past year), reflecting a different valuation methodology, and a local market report cited approximately $235,000 for single-family homes specifically in the same month. All three figures, despite disagreeing with each other, land well below the national median home price.
Taxes -- Arizona's Real Flat Income Tax, a Low Property Tax, an Uncertain Sales Tax Figure
Arizona has taxed individual income at a flat 2.5% rate since tax year 2023 -- the lowest flat rate of any state that taxes income at all, applying identically in Winslow as statewide (this is NOT a no-income-tax state). Winslow's effective property tax rate is a low 0.46%, below both the Arizona and national medians. Sales tax carries a real, disclosed, unresolved disagreement: one source estimates a 9.43% combined rate (5.6% state + 0.83% Navajo County + 3.0% city), while a separate source cited a notably higher 12.43% -- a figure that appears to conflate Winslow with a different Navajo County reservation-overlay tax region documented elsewhere in this dataset. Confirm the current rate directly with the Arizona Dept. of Revenue before relying on either figure for a specific transaction.
Income and Affordability -- A Real, Notably Modest Local Economy
This is disclosed directly rather than softened: Winslow's median household income is cited at roughly $58,346, well below the Arizona and national medians, and notably below Cave Creek's ($107,067) and Carefree's ($147,165) figures documented elsewhere in this dataset. A cited 29.85% poverty rate is real and notably elevated. Winslow's low housing prices reflect genuinely lower local incomes as much as lower costs -- "affordable" here should be read alongside that context, not in isolation.
Key takeaways
- Median home price runs roughly $179,000-$235,000 depending on source, genuinely affordable by national standards even after a real, steep 30.0% year-over-year increase cited by Redfin.
- Arizona's real flat 2.5% state income tax applies in Winslow as statewide, alongside a low 0.46% effective property tax rate; the exact combined sales tax rate carries a real, unresolved disagreement (9.43% vs. a separately cited, likely-misattributed 12.43%).
- Median household income ($58,346) and poverty rate (29.85%) are real, disclosed, notably modest figures -- meaningfully below the affluent Cave Creek/Carefree towns documented elsewhere in this dataset, worth weighing honestly against the low housing prices.
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