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How Queen Creek's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Queen Creek?
Your $100,000 in Queen Creek has the same purchasing power as $90,310 in the average US city. You'd need $9,690 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Queen Creek's cost index of 111, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Queen Creek, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. Above-average earnings, not just for a few people and among the safer us cities of its size lead, plus 2 more things worth knowing — the rest unpacked below.
Queen Creek's typical household earns $127,182, which puts it in the top tier of US cities for household income. The bottom of the wage distribution isn't necessarily different from anywhere else, but the median and above sit meaningfully higher.
The reported crime rate in Queen Creek runs about 1,134 per 100,000 residents — meaningfully below the national norm. People who care about safety as a baseline rather than a feature tend to land in cities with numbers like these.
Average AQI in Queen Creek comes in around 33, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Queen Creek has a college-educated share of about 44% among adults 25+, which is higher than the national norm. It shows up in the local job mix, in the school district's reputation, and in the kind of conversations you have at the coffee shop.
Reasons are pulled from Queen Creek's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
It's rare. Winters in Queen Creek run about 47°F — cold-snap mornings happen, real snowfall doesn't, except maybe once a decade.
Not very. Average winter temperatures of about 47°F mean Queen Creek skips the harsh-winter problem most of the country has. A handful of cold mornings, otherwise sweater weather at worst.
Properly hot. Queen Creek's summer averages around 105°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Zone 10, give or take a half-zone. Queen Creek's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 10 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Roughly 1,427 feet (435 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
The headline number is reassuring. Queen Creek's reported incident rate of about 1,134 per 100,000 is comfortably below the US norm of around 3,500 per 100k. Specific neighborhoods always vary, but the broader picture is on the safer side.
More expensive than average — by enough to plan around. Queen Creek's composite index is 111 versus 100 for the US, with rent and home prices driving most of the gap. Salaries in higher-paying industries usually move together, but the math still tightens for everyone else.
Queen Creek's Walk Score is 7/100, firmly in the car-required tier. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $77,511 to live in Queen Creek the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Queen Creek runs about $2,030/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.