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Population 72,059: a city settled in 1997.
Plenty in its favour, and one clear drawback. Its strongest is health (A): CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 88% of the country. Add schools to its strengths: its schools rank ahead of 68% of Arizona towns. The catch is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $343K, 4.9 years of the Tucson metro’s $70K median household income. It also trails on hazard risk — FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 80% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Overall, that makes a B, better than 59% of U.S. towns. That places it 28th of 139 in Arizona. Casitas de Castilian Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Casas Adobes’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Arizona), ordered by how far Casas Adobes is from typical.
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Census counts: 54,011 in 2000, 70,973 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 2014 and 3 maps from 1957 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Casas Adobes. Close and well known come first.
5 mi National ParkSaguaro National Park848K visitors a year
9 mi Stadium & arenaArizona Stadium
15 mi MountainMount Lemmon
16 mi MuseumPima Air & Space Museum
11 mi Zoo & aquariumArizona-Sonora Desert Museum
30 mi MuseumTitan Missile MuseumSaguaro National Park: Luke Jones from Yucca Valley, CC BY 2.0 · Arizona Stadium: Wcarlisle4, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mount Lemmon: Debby Kriegel, Public domain · Pima Air & Space Museum: The original uploader was MCB at English Wikipedia. Later versions were uploade, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Titan Missile Museum: Mike McBey, CC BY 2.0
Casas Adobes is unincorporated, so Pima County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Casas Adobes.
Casas Adobes has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns and has less tooth loss than most of Arizona.
Its widest gap with Arizona is tooth loss: 9% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 14.7% statewide.
Nearly a fifth of adults get no exercise outside work in Casas Adobes, below both Arizona’s towns (24%) and U.S. towns (25%). For adults in the town, the share who smoke cigarettes is 9%. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Casas Adobes is ahead of Arizona on 14 and behind on 2.
| Casas Adobes | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9% | 13% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 24% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.7% | 13% | 12% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 32% | 35% |
| What stands out | Casas Adobes | AZ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9% | 14.7% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.9% | 15.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Three of its 26 schools are shown below, with the reason for each. 6 public schools serve Casas Adobes, with 3,200 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Traditional School - Northwest TucsonLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 1,284 | A |
| Sonoran Science Academy - TucsonLargest public high schoolGrades K–12 | Grades K–12 | 689 | A− |
| Winifred Harelson Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 407 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within AZ on state tests and graduation
FEMA puts 72% of Casas Adobes’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 25% to heat waves. Since 1980, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in the town.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Casas Adobes: 16% of workers work remotely from home. Only 8% of working residents stay in Casas Adobes for work; the rest commute out. 6.6% of residents live below the poverty line here, below both the Arizona town median (12%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). For half of commuters, work is under 11 miles away.
| Casas Adobes | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 6.6% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 16% | 12% | 11% |
| Median household income | $84,000 | $68,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The Tucson U Of A #1 weather station, 6 miles away, records that about 167 days a year reach 90°, more than in 99% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 101.4°, hotter than in 99% of U.S. towns; January nights average 38.2°.
For Casas Adobes, the typical July afternoon high is 101°F. Snowfall is close to zero.
| Casas Adobes | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 101°F | 100°F | 85°F |
| January low | 38°F | 36°F | 22°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest park or preserve is Cañada del Oro River Park, at 209 acres. Walkers can cover 15 miles of trail in 8 parks and preserves. Casas Adobes’ density of trails is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Casas Adobes | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 3.3% | 15% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 1.1 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Meadowbrook Park | 0.3 mi | 4 |
| 2. Cañada del Oro River Park | 0.2 mi | 209 |
| 3. Denny Dunn Neighborhood Park | — | 21 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Here, 43% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 33% in Arizona as a whole. People 65 and older are 24% of residents (19% statewide). 18% of residents are under 18 in Casas Adobes.
| Casas Adobes | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 43% | 24% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 18% | 21% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 25% | 22% | 18% |
| Median age | 43 years | 41.8 years | 40.5 years |
52.8% women, 47.2% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Across Arizona, 50.1% of residents are women. Median age: women 45.7, men 39.9.
| Casas Adobes | AZ | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.2% | 11.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.7% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.4% | 9.4% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.5% | 13.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.2% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.7% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.8% | 12% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.7% | 10.8% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 11.7% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.6% | 10.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 17.6% | 23.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 24.1% | 23.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.1% | 9.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.6% | 20.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 18.9% | 13% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
On the market in Casas Adobes: a median 57 days to sell. The going rate for rent for Casas Adobes comes to $1,650 a month. The share of households in Casas Adobes who own their home: 68%.
| Casas Adobes | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,650 a month | $1,190 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 68% | 76% | 73% |
| Renters paying 30%+ of income on rent | 52% | 46% | 48% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
6 within 15 miles of the center of Casas Adobes
About 6 of every 100 Casas Adobes residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Arizona.
CDP in Pima County, Arizona
Casas Adobes (Spanish: "Adobe Houses") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in the northern metropolitan area of Tucson, Arizona (in Pima County). The population was 70,973 at the 2020 census. Casas Adobes is situated south and southwest of the town of Oro Valley, and west of the community of Catalina Foothills. The attempted assassination of Representative Gabby Giffords, and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, John Roll, and five other people on January 8, 2011, took place at a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes.
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5 towns share a border with Casas Adobes.
| Town | AZ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casas Adobes | #28 | B | D | — | B+ | A |
| Tucson | #108 | C− | C | D | B | B− |
| Marana | #39 | B− | D | B− | B+ | A |
| Oro Valley | #20 | B | D | B+ | B+ | A |
| Flowing Wells | #66 | C+ | B+ | — | B | C− |
| Catalina Foothills | #31 | B | D | — | B | A+ |
Casas Adobes, Flowing Wells and Catalina Foothills report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Casas Adobes with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Casas Adobes grades B overall, better than 59% of U.S. towns and #28 of 139 in Arizona. It grades A for health and B+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $343,000, 18% below the Arizona typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
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