Duffy Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$378,000

Price range

$255K – $548K

School district

TUSD (Sewell Elementary, Alice Vail Middle, Rincon High)

Approximate population

~900

Approximate number of homes

~490 homes

What defines this area

• Detached houses closing between $255,000 and $548,000
• Part of the 1923 Mitman Addition plus six plats from 1955 to 1960
• Houses built from 1952 to 1983, to a 1960 median
• Larger houses closing at a lower rate per square foot
• A $360,000 median across 37 closings in three years
• Every closing a detached house, with no condominium or townhouse sales
• Houses of 2,000 sq ft or more at a $459,500 median
• Nine of 37 closed over asking; seven took a price reduction
• R-1 zoning at 94 of 121 interior sample points
• Commercial zoning along the Speedway Boulevard frontage
• Speedway Boulevard, Craycroft Road, Fifth Street and Rosemont Boulevard as edges
• Annexed into the City of Tucson under a 1955–56 ordinance
• A City-registered Duffy neighborhood association since 2001
• FEMA Zone X at all 121 sample points
• Sewell Elementary, Alice Vail Middle and Rincon High attendance areas
• Ward 6 and ZIP code 85711

About Duffy

Duffy is a quarter-section of east-central Tucson, about 160 acres, bounded by Speedway Boulevard on the north, Craycroft Road on the east, Fifth Street on the south and Rosemont Boulevard on the west, and it is one build era of detached houses. Every one of its 37 closings over the three years to October 2026 was a detached house, built between 1952 and 1983 to a median year of 1960, and they closed between $255,000 and $548,000 around a median of $360,000. The City of Tucson's registered Duffy neighborhood association, registered in October 2001, covers the same ground: its outline measures about 160.5 acres, the same as the boundary, and the two agree on more than 99% of their area. Inside the four arterials, Second, Third and Fourth Streets, Baker Street, Hawthorne Street, Hawthorne Place, Rosewood Street and Alhambra Place run east to west, with Magnolia, Beverly and Woodland Avenues and Duffy Place among the shorter north–south streets. The ground was platted in two different eras. The City of Tucson's subdivision layer records part of the Mitman Addition, a 666-lot plat recorded in November 1923 that also makes up most of Mitman east across Craycroft Road, and six post-war plats: Darling Acres, 70 lots, and Casa Mesa, 51 lots, both in December 1955; the Elizabeth Addition, 24 lots, in June 1956; Casa Mesa No. 2, 25 lots, in September 1956; Sunshine Homes Acres, 48 lots, in April 1957; and Duffy Place, 13 lots, in March 1960. The 342 county parcels wholly inside the boundary all carry the TUCSON jurisdiction code, and they divide among those plats: 114 in the Mitman Addition, 67 in Darling Acres, 51 in Sunshine Homes Acres, 48 in Casa Mesa, 25 in Casa Mesa No. 2, 24 in the Elizabeth Addition and 13 in Duffy Place. The City's year-built layer dates the structures on 339 of those parcels from 1947 to 2008, to a median of 1959, and 292 of them were built between 1950 and 1964. The neighborhood shares its name with Duffy Place, the short street and the 1960 plat; this page has not established who the name refers to. Zoning follows the edges. The City's zoning layer returns R-1 single-family residential zoning at 94 of 121 interior sample points; C-2 commercial zoning lines the Speedway Boulevard frontage, R-3 residential zoning the row of blocks behind it, R-2 a few points near Rosemont and Craycroft, and C-1 commercial zoning the Fifth Street and Craycroft corner. All 37 Residential closings recorded inside the boundary over the three years were detached houses; there were no condominium or townhouse closings. They closed around a median of $360,000 and an average of $378,178, at a median of about $211 a square foot on a median 1,755 square feet. Seven closed under $300,000, the lowest at $255,000; six between $300,000 and $350,000; ten between $350,000 and $400,000; eight between $400,000 and $450,000; three between $450,000 and $500,000; and three at $500,000 or more, the highest at $548,000. Size, more than age, is what moves the price. The ten houses of 2,000 square feet or more closed around a median of $459,500 on a median 2,097 square feet, at about $197 a square foot, while the 27 smaller houses closed around $350,000 on 1,728 square feet, at about $225 a square foot; and both groups' median build year falls between 1959 and 1960. So a larger house here sells for more in total but less per square foot, and it is priced against other large houses rather than by multiplying the neighborhood's rate per foot. The median listing went under contract in 15 days, and the record closed at 99 cents on the list dollar; nine of the 37 closed above their asking price and seven took at least one price reduction. Over the same three years, two residential income properties also closed inside the boundary, both at $450,000 and both built in 1960; they are counted separately from the houses and are not in the range at the top of this page. These are closed sales, not homes currently for sale, and they are medians over a small group; a valuation still works from closely matched sales. The whole boundary came into the City of Tucson under one annexation ordinance, number 1634, which the City's records date to the winter of 1955–56, not deannexed, and all of it sits in Ward 6. No homeowners association appears on the City of Tucson's homeowners association layers for any of it, and this page publishes no dues figure; the title work and the resale disclosure answer that for a specific lot. There is no City park inside the boundary. Highland Vista Park, at 350 North Cloverland Avenue south across Fifth Street, and Swan Way Park, at 4800 East First Street, are both within a little over half a mile of it. FEMA's flood map returns Zone X, an area of minimal flood hazard, at all 121 interior sample points, and the City maps three small unnamed flow paths through the neighborhood with 25-foot setbacks. A sample point is not a flood determination for any particular property, so check the flood map for a specific address. All 121 sample points fall inside the City's mapped Davis-Monthan Air Force Base vicinity. The boundary sits in ZIP code 85711. Schools are Tucson Unified. LiveBy's assignment query names W. Arthur Sewell Elementary on North Sahuara Avenue, Alice Vail Middle on East 16th Street and Rincon High on North Arcadia Avenue as the assigned campuses. Assignments are drawn by address and change, so confirm a specific address with the district.

Duffy is a suburban neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the central side of the Tucson area, Arizona, served by TUSD (Sewell Elementary, Alice Vail Middle, Rincon High). Homes trade in the $255K – $548K range, with an average sale price of $378,000 across roughly 490 homes and a population of about 900. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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