Elvira Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$257,000

Price range

$200K – $345K

School district

Sunnyside USD (Santa Clara or Elvira Elementary, Desert View High)

Approximate population

~8,200

Approximate number of homes

~2,800 homes

What defines this area

• Barrio Nopal Park, with ramadas and a seasonal splash pad
• Elvira and Santa Clara Elementary Schools inside the boundary
• Interstate 19 frontage with the Exit 95 interchange at the corner
• San Miguel High School on South San Fernando Road
• Valencia Road north, Los Reales Road south, Nogales Highway east
• Two registered associations, Elvira and Barrio Nopal, covering one boundary
• All 95 recent closings detached, not one attached home among them
• Homes built 1932-2024 to a median year of 1971
• Living areas 828-2,274 sq ft, median 1,312
• Fifty-six of 95 closings inside one $50,000 band
• Floor area, not age, separating the price bands
• Fifty-two recorded plats spanning 1923 to 2025
• Valencia, platted in 1923 and the oldest filing here
• Mission Manor platted across three filings, 1951-1952
• Four separate subdivision plats recorded in 2025
• No association over the mid-century tracts, four over the 2000s ones
• Hughes, El Vado, Valencia and Santa Clara Washes
• No military-airport seller disclosure territory over any of it
• Inside Tucson International's mapped avigation disclosure area
• Wholly inside the City of Tucson, almost entirely in the 85756 area

About Elvira

Elvira is 999 acres of flat ground on Tucson's far south side, a mile from north to south and a mile and two-thirds from east to west. Valencia Road bounds it on the north, South Nogales Highway on the east, Los Reales Road on the south and Interstate 19 on the west, with the Exit 95 ramps meeting Valencia at the north-west corner. Every one of the 2,449 parcels wholly inside it is City of Tucson, and 2,447 of the 2,515 addresses carry the 85756 ZIP code. What sells here is detached houses, and only detached houses. All 95 closings recorded inside this boundary over the three years to September 2026 were single-family detached — not one townhouse and not one condominium. The parcel record agrees from the other side: 1,947 of the 2,449 parcels are single-family residential and twelve are townhouse. So every figure below describes a house, with no attached tier hidden inside it. Those 95 sales ran $150,000 to $345,000 against a $260,900 median and a $256,778 average, on a $265,000 list median. The houses behind them were built between 1932 and 2024 to a median year of 1971, and they took a median 16 days on market against 18 counting relists, at a sale-to-list ratio of 0.99. Thirty-eight of the 95 closed above asking and 26 took a price reduction first. Living areas ran 828 to 2,274 square feet with a 1,312-square-foot median, and the median price per square foot was $193.97. The prices sit close together. Split into best-fit bands, 56 of the 95 sales — nearly six in ten — land in one $50,000 band between $250,000 and $300,000, another 22 between $200,000 and $250,000, eight below $200,000 and nine above $300,000. Nothing closed above $345,000 in three years. Age is not what separates the bands and floor area is: the median year built reads 1966, 1965, 1971 and 1975 from the bottom of the market to the top, while the median floor area climbs 1,238, 1,172, 1,317 and 1,700 square feet. The name is on the ground and it covers about a third of this boundary, which is worth knowing before searching on it. West and East Elvira Road run the width of the middle, an Elvira Subdivision plat was recorded in 2009, and Elvira Elementary School stands at 250 West Elvira Road inside the boundary. But the City of Tucson registers two active neighborhood associations over this ground rather than one, both in Ward 1: Elvira over the western third at 367 acres, and Barrio Nopal over the eastern two-thirds at 624 acres. They meet along a north-south line a little east of South Santa Clara Avenue, and between them they cover the whole of it — 991 acres against this boundary's 999. A house marketed as Elvira may sit in either, so it is worth confirming which one a specific address is in. Building here has never really stopped, which is why one street can hold a 1952 block house and a 2025 build. Pima County records 52 plats wholly inside the boundary, running from Valencia in August 1923 and Golden Dawn Farms in September 1926 to Ocotillo Oeste in December 2025. Elstone followed in 1947; Mission Manor and its second and third filings laid down 428 lots between December 1951 and August 1952; Mitchell Addition, Rita Manor, Rita Manor Park and Rita Manor Terrace added some 600 more between 1952 and 1961. A second wave lands between December 1970 and February 1973 — Jamaican Estates, Mission Heights in three filings, Los Reales Heights in two, Pogo and Harlan Vista Manor. The record thins through the 1980s and 1990s, then resumes: Los Santos Reales in 1997, Casas del Sol and Hacienda del Sol in 2002, Desert Vista and High Sierra Estates in 2004, Corona Road Estates and Elstone II in 2006, Elvira Subdivision in 2009, La Terra Reserve in 2020 — and four separate filings in 2025 alone: Teton Commons, San Fernando Heights, Corona Addition and Ocotillo Oeste. Most of this ground carries no homeowners association and a little of it does, and the split follows those plat dates almost exactly. Four associations own common-area parcels inside the boundary and all four belong to subdivisions platted between 2002 and 2006: Casas del Sol Homeowners Association holds five common areas, Hacienda del Sol HOA two, Desert Vista HOA Tucson Inc two and Corona Road Estates Homeowners Association Inc two. Between them those four subdivisions account for roughly 142 lots of the 2,449 parcels here. The mid-century and 1970s tracts that make up the bulk of the neighborhood — Mission Manor, Mitchell Addition, Rita Manor, Jamaican Estates, Los Reales Heights, Mission Heights — carry none. The 2025 San Fernando Heights plat records common areas A, B and C, so a fifth may be forming, though no association yet appears as an owner of record. Dues are not in the public parcel record: ask for the current figure and the governing documents on any specific house. Tucson International Airport lies immediately east of Nogales Highway, and there are three separate questions in that, with three different answers. The first is the Tucson Airport Authority's Avigation Easement and Disclosure Area, drawn around Tucson International and Ryan Airfield, and this boundary sits inside it throughout. That is the ground over which the Authority asks for avigation easements and noise disclosure statements as a condition of new development and rezoning. It does not mean an easement is recorded against any particular parcel — the title report is what answers that. The second is Arizona's mandatory written seller disclosure for airport proximity, and it does not apply here: A.R.S. 28-8484 ties that duty to territory in the vicinity of a military airport, A.R.S. 28-8461 names the five military airports in the state, and Tucson International is not one of them. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is, but the statutory territory drawn around it extends a mile and a half southwest of the runway centreline and reaches no part of this boundary. The third question is the airport environs overlay, and it is the one to check by address rather than to read off a neighborhood page. Pima County's mapping puts the northern end of the eastern edge inside Tucson International's 65-to-70 LDN noise contour and the CUZ-4 compatible use zone, which is the lowest-risk of the accident-potential zones drawn near the runway ends, and puts part of the ground under the airport height overlay at limits between 65 and 160 feet. Most of the boundary is outside all of it. But the county publishes those layers as archival — it dates the noise layer to 1992 and says it is not a current airport environs layer — and this ground is inside the City of Tucson, where the operative maps are the City's own Airport Environs Zone overlay series under Unified Development Code 5.6, held by the City Clerk and Planning and Development Services. The Airport Authority's current mapping is the other live copy; the county's dates from 2004 and is marked not maintained. Check those for a specific house rather than relying on any of the figures in this paragraph. Five named wash reaches cross the ground, and their setbacks are buildable-area questions rather than flood-insurance ones: Hughes Wash carries a 75-foot setback in the county's 2,000-to-5,000-cubic-feet-per-second class, El Vado Wash and Valencia Wash 50 feet, Santa Clara Wash 25, and four unnamed reaches 25. Hughes Wash's banks are recorded as natural rather than lined. On a lot one of them crosses, that strip is ground you cannot build on, so it is worth locating before pricing an addition. Zoning is ordinary for a Tucson neighborhood of this age and explains little on its own: 1,680 of the 2,449 parcels are R-1, the City's low-density residence zone, and 632 are R-2, its medium-density one, with the remaining 137 in commercial, office and industrial zones along the Valencia and Nogales frontages. Read that as what the ground is permitted to hold rather than as an account of what stands on it — most of the housing predates the current code, and the City's middle housing amendment, adopted 16 December 2025 and effective 1 January 2026, now permits townhomes and other middle housing across essentially every residential zone in Tucson, R-1 included. Public ground is limited and specific. Barrio Nopal Park at 311 East Elvira Road is the one park, 5.72 acres and wholly inside, and the City lists a playground under shade structures, ramadas, restrooms, open grass, natural walking paths and a splash pad open April to October. The City of Tucson is the recorded owner of 43 open-space and common parcels inside the boundary and the Tucson Airport Authority of five. Five campuses stand on this ground: Elvira Elementary on West Elvira Road, Santa Clara Elementary on South Santa Clara Avenue, Challenger Middle School on East Elvira Road, San Miguel High School — a private school — on South San Fernando Road, and Math and Science Success Academy, a charter, on West Lerdo Road. Assignment is Sunnyside Unified throughout and the elementary assignment divides: the western part of the boundary is assigned to Santa Clara Elementary and the centre and east to Elvira Elementary, both K-6, with Desert View High School covering the whole of it. Challenger Middle is the district's 7-8 campus here, but the assignment mapping does not confirm which addresses it serves, so check that one with the district. Assignments are drawn by address and they change, so confirm them for a specific address before relying on any of this.

Elvira is an affordable neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the south side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by Sunnyside USD (Santa Clara or Elvira Elementary, Desert View High). Homes trade in the $200K – $345K range, with an average sale price of $257,000 across roughly 2,800 homes and a population of about 8,200. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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