Dietz Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$274,000

Price range

$150K – $350K

School district

Tucson Unified School District

Approximate population

~7,600

Approximate number of homes

~3,500 homes

What defines this area

• Houses platted continuously between 1959 and 2023
• The Pantano Wash and the Chuck Huckelberry Loop along its north-east side
• An unusually even mix of detached and attached homes
• Dietz K-8 School inside the boundary on East Palma Street
• 128 detached houses, 30 townhouses and 29 condominiums in the last 187 closings
• Twenty-nine recorded plats carrying 1,357 lots
• Bounded by 22nd Street, Kolb Road, Golf Links Road and the Pantano Wash
• 894.4 acres, 1.398 square miles — not a square mile
• Manana Grande's 506 lots recorded in four phases between 1959 and 1963
• Butterfield Ranch and Pantano Ridge — 315 lots recorded in 2001–2002
• Houses built to a median year of 1978, range 1959–2020
• Living areas about 576–2,731 sq ft, median near 1,453
• 2,285 parcels at a 0.185-acre median, 1,274 of them zoned R-1
• An I-1 light-industrial district of 50 parcels over 87.6 acres
• About 1.4 miles of paved shared-use path along the wash
• Chuck Ford Lakeside Park and Michael Perry Park about a quarter-mile out
• An active City-registered neighborhood association dating to 1998
• Tucson Unified School District attendance area

About Dietz

Dietz is the piece of east-side Tucson caught between three arterials and a river park: East 22nd Street across the north, South Kolb Road down the west, East Golf Links Road along the whole 1.8-mile south side, and — in place of a fourth street — the Pantano Wash, which cuts the north-east corner away on a diagonal a mile and a third long. That fourth side is why the outline is not the square mile its neighbours are. The other thing that sets it apart takes two records to see and explains most of what the numbers do: this ground was platted without a pause from 1959 to 2023, where the postwar tracts a mile or two west of it stopped in the early sixties, and the result is a neighborhood that never settled into one kind of house — 128 detached homes, 30 townhouses and 29 condominiums in the last 187 closings, at median prices that differ by a factor of nearly two and at prices per square foot that differ by twelve dollars. A geodesic integration of the boundary gives 894.4 acres, 1.398 square miles. The three street edges all check against Pima County's street-centerline layer to within a couple of metres, and South Pantano Road runs the full height of the interior rather than forming an edge. The whole of it is in the City of Tucson: all 2,285 parcels lying wholly inside read Tucson on the county's jurisdiction field, with no exception, and all thirty interior points tested return council Ward 4 — which is also the ward the City files the registered Dietz neighborhood association under. That association has been active since 25 November 1998, and its own polygon carries 934.6 acres, about forty more than this one. The two outlines agree along 22nd Street, Kolb and Golf Links and part company only along the wash, where the civic version reaches further north-east, to Pantano Road at the top and to Camino Seco at the bottom corner. The plat record is where that continuity is written down. Twenty-nine plats lie wholly inside carrying 1,357 recorded lots, from Manana Grande on 2 June 1959 to Pantano Vista on 28 February 2023. Nine filings between 1959 and 1964 laid down 631 of those lots, and 506 of them are Manana Grande alone, recorded in four phases — 185 lots in January 1962, 238 that June, two that August and 79 in August 1963 — alongside Vista del Sierras, Vista del Sierras East's 83 lots in 1964 and Lakecrest No. 1's 22 in 1963. Ten filings between 1971 and 1984 added 227 more, among them Rolling Hills Vista's 58, Concord Hill's 79 and Mira Mesa's 47, plus the attached-housing filings the county records as a single lot each: Summit Park Townhouses' 110 units in 1978, Ridge 22 Condominiums' 90 in 1984 and Palm Ridge Terrace in 1975. Ten further filings between 1995 and 2023 carry 499 lots — Butterfield Ranch's 192 on 46.8 acres in March 2001, Pantano Ridge's 123 on 17.6 acres in August 2002, Le Mirador Townhomes' 50 in 1995, Cross Ridge's 35 in 1999, Pantano Vista's 32 in 2023, East Place's 28 in 2019 and Sonoran Meadows' 22 in 1999. Not all of it is housing, and the plat record says so plainly: the Eastside Research / Commerce Center recorded 27 lots over 102.8 acres in 1984 and the Eastside Industrial Center twelve more in 2007. Against 1,274 R-1 parcels at a 0.194-acre median, the county's zoning field puts 50 parcels in the I-1 light-industrial district over 87.6 acres and three MH-2 parcels over 67.7; the 2,285 parcels together run to 654.7 acres at a 0.185-acre median, with 2,541 building footprints mapped wholly inside. The last 187 closings are the whole record here rather than a sample, and they do not resolve to one kind of house. 128 were detached single-family homes, 30 were townhouses and 29 were condominiums — nearly a third of the record attached — and the three tiers reconcile to the cent against the unfiltered total. Blended, they closed at a $290,000 median and a $274,029 average, were built to a median year of 1978 across a 1959-to-2020 range, run 576 to 2,731 square feet with a 1,453-square-foot median, and traded at a $195.52 median price per square foot with a median of 22 days on market and a sale-to-list ratio of 1.00; 49 of the 187 closed above asking. Split, they say more than the blend does. The detached houses closed at a $299,999.50 median and a $302,160 average, with a 1,580-square-foot median, a 1967 median year built and $196.35 a square foot. The townhouses closed at a $255,000 median, 1,273 square feet, a 1980 median year built and $199.29 a square foot, and were the quickest of the three at a 17-day median on market. The condominiums closed at a $162,500 median, 840 square feet, a 1985 median year built and $187.03 a square foot, taking a 42-day median to go under contract. Twelve dollars a square foot separates the dearest of the three from the cheapest, while their median prices differ by a factor of 1.85 and their median floor areas by 1.88 — so the gap between a condominium here and a detached house is almost exactly a gap of size. There is also no hidden generation in the record, which is worth stating because on an older Tucson boundary there usually is: the closed sales have a 1978 median year built and a 1978.71 mean, less than a year apart, where a single late cohort dropped into an old tract pulls the mean years above the median. The plat record explains it — building here was continuous rather than concentrated — and the census-derived housing histogram agrees, putting 1,087 units before 1970, 799 in the 1970s, 438 in the 1980s, 240 in the 1990s, 789 in the 2000s, 52 in the 2010s and 83 after 2019. No park of any kind stands inside the boundary. What runs along it instead is Pima County's Pantano River Park, an 80-acre linear park on the wash whose nearest edge is about ten metres away and which follows the entire north-east side: roughly 1.4 miles of paved shared-use path, mostly twelve feet wide, with about 1.1 miles of an eight-foot soft-surface track beside it, all part of the Chuck Huckelberry Loop. Michael Perry Park's 7.6 acres sit a quarter of a mile off the south-east side and the City's 49.8-acre Chuck Ford Lakeside Park about the same distance south of Golf Links Road, with Palo Verde Park's 28 acres six-tenths of a mile out and Jesse Owens Park's 38.6 three-quarters. The assigned school stands inside the boundary and shares its name with it. Dietz K-8 School, at 7575 East Palma Street on an 8.5-acre campus, serves prekindergarten through eighth grade in the Tucson Unified School District, and Tucson Unified is the district the City's association registry files this neighborhood under; which of the two took the name first is not settled by any public source consulted here, so this page does not say. Assignment is uniform across the whole of it: Pima County's own attendance-area layer returns the Dietz K-8, Secrist Middle and Palo Verde High Magnet areas at all thirty interior points tested, with no split anywhere, and LiveBy returns those three plus Booth-Fickett Math/Science Magnet K-8, for which the county layer draws no attendance area at all. All four are Tucson Unified. A second campus is mapped inside at 7310 East 22nd Street, filed by the county under the Academy of Tucson Middle School, a charter serving grades five to eight — though the federal directory now carries that address as the charter's mailing address and its campus on the far north-east side of town, so it is named here as a map record rather than as a school anyone here attends. Addresses are split between two ZIP codes, and lopsidedly: 2,025 of the 2,152 official county address points inside read 85710, and the other 127 read 85730 — every one of them on the Golf Links Road frontage along the south edge. Measured from the nearest boundary edge, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is about a mile south, the Park Place mall about 1.4 miles west and St. Joseph's Hospital about the same, Tucson Medical Center about 3.7 miles north-west, El Con Mall about 4.3, Interstate 10 about 4.4 miles south-west, the University of Arizona about 6.3 and Tucson International Airport about 6.4. The $150,000 to $350,000 band this page publishes covers 167 of the 187 closings: five came in beneath it, the lowest at $123,000, and fifteen cleared it, the highest at $425,000. The average closed price is near $274,000 against a $290,000 median, the mean about $16,000 below — the shape of a record whose bottom sixth is condominiums rather than one long tail under a single tier.

Dietz is an affordable neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the southeast side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by Tucson Unified School District. Homes trade in the $150K – $350K range, with an average sale price of $274,000 across roughly 3,500 homes and a population of about 7,600. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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