Julia Keen Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$180,000

Price range

$50K – $300K

School district

Tucson Unified School District

Approximate population

~4,300

Approximate number of homes

~2,100 homes

What defines this area

• Eleven 1962 housing cooperatives — Citation Gardens Cooperative Corporations No. 1 through No. 11
• Two housing markets in one square mile — detached houses and co-op shares
• Gene C. Reid Park and the Reid Park Zoo across 22nd Street from the north edge
• Postwar houses on ground platted between 1929 and 1964
• A central Tucson square mile — 638.8 acres bounded by 22nd Street, Alvernon Way, Country Club Road and Aviation Parkway (ZIP 85713)
• Two City of Tucson parks inside the boundary — Parkview Park and Country Club Annex Park
• Council Ward 5, with an active City-registered neighborhood association
• 120 of the last 204 closings detached houses, 69 co-op units and 15 townhouses
• Detached houses built to a median year of 1954, range 1946–2023
• Detached living areas about 594–2,028 sq ft, median near 1,133
• 1,918 parcels at a 0.166-acre median, 1,140 of them zoned R-1
• Nineteen recorded plats inside carrying 1,597 lots, from 1929 to 1981
• About three-quarters of a mile of paved shared-use path along Aviation Parkway
• The former Julia Keen Elementary campus, now the Flowers & Bullets Collective's farm
• Davis-Monthan AFB across Alvernon Way from the south-east edge
• About a mile to El Con Mall and 2.3 to the University of Arizona
• Tucson Unified School District attendance area

About Julia Keen

Julia Keen is a central Tucson square mile with two housing markets inside it. One is postwar houses built between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, which closed at a $243,000 median over the last three years; the other is eleven housing cooperatives built in 1962, where a share in a unit closed at a $67,500 median and the monthly fee covers the property tax bill. That split is the shape of the whole place, and no single average describes it. The boundary runs 638.8 acres — 0.998 of a square mile — squared off by four hard edges: East 22nd Street on the north, South Alvernon Way on the east, South Country Club Road on the west, and East Aviation Parkway, which cuts the south-west corner away on a diagonal. All four check against Pima County's street-centerline layer to within a couple of metres. Gene C. Reid Park's 156 acres begin on the far side of 22nd Street, so the Reid Park Zoo grounds stand less than a tenth of a mile from the north edge and Hi Corbett Field about a third of a mile; the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base boundary runs along the far side of Alvernon Way opposite the south-eastern half-mile of the east edge, and a Union Pacific rail line runs within about 30 yards of Aviation Parkway. The whole of it is ZIP 85713 and the whole of it is in the City of Tucson's council Ward 5, which the City's own registered Julia Keen neighborhood association — active, registered 21 July 1999 — records independently. Ninety-six per cent of the ground is city: 1,842 of the 1,918 parcels wholly inside read Tucson on the county's jurisdiction field, and the 76 that do not are one unincorporated Pima County industrial pocket along the southern edge, zoned CI-1, which the City-registered association excludes and the LiveBy boundary takes in — the whole 64-acre difference between the association's 574.8 acres and this boundary's 638.8. The last 204 closings are the whole record here rather than a sample, and they divide three ways: 120 detached single-family houses, 69 units in those cooperatives, and 15 townhouses. The 120 detached houses closed at a $243,000 median and a $241,534 average, were built to a median year of 1954 across a 1946-to-2023 range, run 594 to 2,028 square feet with a 1,133-square-foot median, and traded at a $215.56 median price per square foot with a median of 17 days on market and a sale-to-list ratio of 1.00; 76 of them are three- or four-bedroom houses at a $259,000 median on 1,266 square feet, and 43 are two-bedroom or smaller at $222,000 on 881. The 69 co-op units closed at a $67,500 median and a $71,307 average on an 800-square-foot median, every one of them built in 1962 or 1963, ranging from 450-square-foot studios to 1,200-square-foot three- and four-bedroom plans, at an $89.09 median price per square foot with a median of 56 days on market and a 0.94 sale-to-list ratio, so that tier both sat longer and settled further under its asking price than the detached one. The 15 townhouses sit between them at a $206,000 median on 918 square feet, built between 1962 and 1970. What is bought in that middle tier is a share rather than a deed. Eleven parcels inside the boundary — 22.4 acres between them, all zoned R-3, on Citation Park Block B and the Citation Park Resub recorded on 8 February 1962 — are owned by Citation Gardens Cooperative Corporation No. 1 through No. 11 on Pima County's own owner record, and they carry the two-story walk-up buildings on South Jones Boulevard and South Palo Verde Avenue that the MLS records as built in 1962. The corporation holds the land, the buyer holds a share in the corporation, and every closing read here was a cash purchase subject to board approval. Dues follow the same split as prices. The detached houses carry none in the closed record; the co-op units carry a monthly charge that the sampled closings report between $220 and $300, and the listing remarks describe it as covering property taxes, water, sewer, trash, roof, exterior and grounds maintenance, pest control, parking and the community pools. A co-op fee here is therefore not comparable with an HOA fee elsewhere, because it absorbs the tax bill; the field is not populated on every closing, so the figure to rely on is the specific corporation's. The ground under all of it was laid out plat by plat over thirty-five years and then stopped. Nineteen recorded plats lie wholly inside carrying 1,597 lots across 472.7 acres, opening with City Parkside on 18 November 1929 at 335 lots, running through Country Club Park in April 1948 at 273 lots, Park View Addition in July 1950 at 186 and Lorena Homesites in June 1948 at 146, and closing with Bel Air Annex No. 2 Resub on 17 September 1964. Citation Park is the largest single name here — 457 lots recorded in four filings between 20 November 1959 and 25 November 1960, numbered 1–112, 113–163, 164–208 and 209–457 — and the four plats recorded after 1964 are all industrial or business ones, from Alvernon Distribution Center in 1974 to Alvernon Business Plaza in 1981, so residential platting here has a closing date as well as an opening one. The county records 1,918 parcels wholly inside at a 0.166-acre median, 1,140 of them zoned R-1 at a 0.183-acre median and 579 R-2 at 0.132, with CI-1, I-1, C-2, R-3, C-1 and C-3 accounting for the remaining 199. Two City of Tucson parks lie wholly inside. Parkview Park, 3.5 acres at 1521 South Chrysler Avenue, has a playground, a multi-purpose field, a ramada, picnic tables, grills, benches and a drinking fountain and no restrooms; Country Club Annex Park, 2.9 acres at 2230 South March Place, has a playground, a multi-purpose field, picnic tables, grills and a drinking fountain, no ramada and no restrooms, and is open from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. About three-quarters of a mile of ten-foot paved shared-use path runs inside the boundary along Aviation Parkway, maintained by the City, with two further paved segments along Richey Boulevard maintained by Pima County and a third along South Palo Verde Road, the diagonal street that crosses the south-eastern quarter. Citation Wash crosses the neighborhood west to east in Pima County's 500-to-1,000 and 1,000-to-2,000 cubic-feet-per-second classes with a 50-foot regulatory setback, and the Tucson Diversion Channel runs along the south-western side in the 2,000-to-5,000 class with a 100-foot setback. The neighborhood and a school share a name: Julia Keen Elementary School stood at 3538 East Ellington Place inside this boundary until Tucson Unified closed it in 2004, and its 9.6-acre campus is now owned by the Flowers & Bullets Collective, which farms and runs community programmes on the site. Homes are in the Tucson Unified School District, and the assignment is consistent at the top and split at the bottom: Pima County's own attendance-area layer returns Tucson High Magnet School and Mansfeld Magnet Middle School at all thirty interior points tested, while the elementary assignment splits three ways between Robison Elementary, the Dietz Annex K-8 area and the Annie W. Kellond Annex area, so elementary attendance is worth checking by address. A charter campus operated by the Griffin Foundation — Children Reaching for the Sky Elementary and Future Investment Middle School — stands inside the boundary on South Alvernon Way. Measured from the nearest boundary edge, El Con Mall is about a mile away, Banner–University Medical Center South about 1.3 miles, Interstate 10 about 1.5, the University of Arizona about 2.3, Park Place about 2.5, downtown Tucson about 2.6 and Tucson International Airport about 4.1. The $50,000 to $300,000 band this page publishes covers 183 of the 204 closings: thirteen came in beneath it, the lowest at $26,000, and eight cleared it, the highest at $421,500. The average closed price is near $180,000 against a $213,500 median, and the two sit $33,500 apart, the mean pulled below the median because a third of the record is the co-op tier — the arithmetic signature of two markets inside one boundary rather than one.

Julia Keen is an affordable neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the central side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by Tucson Unified School District. Homes trade in the $50K – $300K range, with an average sale price of $180,000 across roughly 2,100 homes and a population of about 4,300. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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