Avondale vs Sun City

A side-by-side comparison of Avondale and Sun City: population, income, housing, and more.

Avondale and Sun City are places in Arizona. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Avondale has the higher population (90,644 vs 38,018 in Sun City). Avondale has the higher median household income ($81,260 vs $52,111 in Sun City). Avondale has the higher median home value ($348,700 vs $259,800 in Sun City).

Population, income & housing

	Avondale	Sun City
Population	90,644	38,018
Median age	32.4 yrs	72.5 yrs
Median household income	$81,260	$52,111
Median home value	$348,700	$259,800
Median gross rent	$1,731	$1,457
Housing units	30,829	27,085
Homeownership rate	61.6%	82.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.2%	25.6%
Unemployment rate	4.6%	5.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Avondale	Sun City
Population	84,736 → 90,644 (+7.0%)	38,877 → 38,018 (-2.2%)
Median household income	$61,825 → $81,260 (+31.4%)	$40,586 → $52,111 (+28.4%)
Median home value	$215,100 → $348,700 (+62.1%)	$159,900 → $259,800 (+62.5%)
Median gross rent	$1,185 → $1,731 (+46.1%)	$1,088 → $1,457 (+33.9%)

Avondale

Population

84,73690,644

Median household income

$61,825$81,260

Median home value

$215,100$348,700

Median gross rent

$1,185$1,731

Sun City

Population

38,87738,018

Median household income

$40,586$52,111

Median home value

$159,900$259,800

Median gross rent

$1,088$1,457

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Avondale	Sun City
Under 5	7.4%	0.1%
5 to 17	20.0%	1.1%
18 to 24	10.1%	0.7%
25 to 34	16.6%	1.1%
35 to 44	13.4%	2.1%
45 to 54	12.9%	3.7%
55 to 64	10.6%	16.2%
65 to 74	5.8%	35.2%
75 and over	3.2%	39.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Avondale	Sun City
White (non-Hispanic)	27.5%	89.0%
Black or African American	10.2%	1.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	1.3%	0.3%
Asian	3.1%	0.8%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.3%	0.2%
Some other race	0.3%	0.2%
Two or more races	3.1%	2.0%
Hispanic or Latino	54.2%	6.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Avondale	Sun City
No high school diploma	15.1%	6.6%
High school graduate	28.6%	30.4%
Some college or associate's	35.1%	37.4%
Bachelor's degree	14.3%	14.8%
Graduate or professional degree	6.8%	10.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Avondale	Sun City
Drove alone	72.1%	67.2%
Carpooled	10.4%	7.1%
Public transit	0.3%	0.0%
Walked	0.4%	0.5%
Bicycle	0.3%	0.4%
Worked from home	13.9%	19.6%
Other means	2.6%	5.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Avondale	Sun City
1-unit, detached	74.5%	61.1%
1-unit, attached	2.2%	26.9%
2 to 4 units	4.0%	2.6%
5 to 19 units	6.0%	3.1%
20 or more units	9.8%	5.5%
Mobile home & other	3.4%	0.8%

Poverty & households

	Avondale	Sun City
Poverty rate	10.9%	11.7%
Average household size	3.08	1.61
Mean commute (minutes)	28	23
Median year structure built	2002	1973