Lakeside Park Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$285,000

Price range

$150K – $425K

School district

TUSD (Ford Elementary, Secrist Middle, Santa Rita High)

Approximate population

~5,700

Approximate number of homes

~2,300 homes

What defines this area

• A 14-acre fishing lake at the centre of the square mile
• The 49.8-acre Chuck Ford Lakeside Park around it
• A closed record of detached single-family houses and nothing else
• Ford Elementary School standing inside the boundary
• Golf Links north, Escalante south, Pantano west, Camino Seco east
• Atterbury Wash and Kinneson Wash meeting inside the park
• Lakeside Lake fished under the state Community Fishing Program
• 588.32 acres, 0.9193 square miles
• Lakeside No. 1 recorded January 1963
• Lakeside and Lakecrest recorded in fourteen filings 1963–1977
• Lincoln Terrace 1997, Enchanted Vista 2000 and Jennifer Meadows 2002
• Lakeside Ridge and Liberty Village both recorded September 2005
• Twenty-five recorded plats, twenty-three carrying 1,643 lots
• Houses built to a median year of 1974, range 1958–2025
• Living areas about 884–2,239 sq ft, median near 1,330
• 1,521 single-family parcels at a 0.168-acre median lot
• Lake-named streets in the 1960s and 1970s tracts
• Lincoln Regional Park across Escalante Road to the south
• Chuck Huckelberry Loop access within about fifteen metres
• Pima Community College East Campus about 0.6 miles away
• Six homeowner associations, all in filings from 1997 onward
• Wholly inside the City of Tucson, entirely in Ward 4

About Lakeside Park

Lakeside Park is a square mile on Tucson's east side with a lake in the middle of it, and the lake is the reason for almost everything else here. Chuck Ford Lakeside Park holds 49.8 acres at the centre of the boundary — the City of Tucson classes it a Metro Park and gives its address as 8201 East Stella Road, the address Pima County also carries on the parcel, though the City's own boating and fishing page gives 8300 East Stella Road for the lake. Lakeside Lake itself is 14 acres at full capacity and 35 feet deep at its deepest by the City's figures, the park around it is open from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., and the lake is fished under the Community Fishing Program the City runs jointly with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, whose regulations apply: no live baitfish, no gasoline motors, boats to 14 feet and canoes and kayaks to 17. Two named washes meet inside the park. Atterbury Wash runs south to north through the middle of the square mile and Kinneson Wash comes in from the west, and Pima County's flood-control layer carries both of them reach by reach. Atterbury crosses Escalante Road in soil cement, runs about four tenths of a mile in natural banks below the park, turns back to soil cement at the lake and then to earthen and a mixed earthen-and-soil-cement reach above it; Kinneson crosses the western edge in soil cement, runs a short natural reach, and is soil cement again where it reaches the lake. Bank material is recorded per reach rather than per wash, so neither one can be described in a single word. The housing around the lake is one kind of housing, which is unusual on this site: every one of the 152 closings over the last three years inside this boundary was a detached single-family house. There is no condominium tier and no townhouse tier to average in — both return a count of zero — so the whole-record figures are the house figures, and that single-tier shape has come up on only one other boundary published here. Whether one of those houses carries a homeowner association depends entirely on which recorded filing its lot sits in, and the answer is not the same across the square mile; the association paragraph below gives the six that hold common ground and the tracts that hold none. Those 152 closings ran $123,000 to $422,500, and the middle of the range is where nearly all of them are: 71 closed between $250,000 and $300,000 and another 44 between $300,000 and $350,000, so 115 of the 152 — just over three quarters — fell inside a single $100,000 band. The median was $285,500 and the average $285,340, which is the closest those two figures have come on any of the LiveBy records this site keeps both numbers for: $159.54 apart, six hundredths of one per cent of the median, on a record where the median close price and the median list price are the same number to the dollar. The houses behind those sales were built between 1958 and 2025 to a median year of 1974, run 884 to 2,239 square feet with a 1,329.5-square-foot median, and traded at a $212.79 median price per square foot on a median 19 days on market against 23 cumulative, at a sale-to-list ratio of 0.99; 41 of the 152 closed above asking and 54 took a price reduction. Sorted into six price bands the year built barely moves — 1979, 1973.5, 1973, 1973, 1976 — until the top band above $350,000, where the median jumps to 2008 on eleven closings. Floor area does the same thing, sitting between 1,170 and 1,490 square feet across the four middle bands and rising to 1,779 in the top one. The ground was platted in two waves and then filled in. Pima County records 25 distinct plats lying wholly inside, mapped as 29 polygons and carrying 1,643 lots between them. Lakeside No. 1 came first with 165 lots on 25 January 1963, then Lakeside No. 2 in April, Lakecrest No. 2's 177 lots in June, Lakecrest No. 1 in July, and Lakecrest No. 3's 147 lots and Lakeside No. 3's 100 in March and April 1964. Nothing was recorded for six years. The second wave ran from a 1971 resubdivision through Lakecrest No. 4 and Lakeside No. 4 in June 1972, Lakeside No. 5 and No. 6 in February 1973, Lakecrest No. 5 that August and Lakecrest No. 6 in July 1977 — and between them those two waves are 1,313 of the 1,643 lots. The rest is later and smaller: Lakeside Business Park in 1982, Springhill Apartments in 1987, a Golf Links and Pantano business filing in 1989, then Lincoln Terrace's 43 lots in 1997, Enchanted Vista's 42 in 2000, Jennifer Meadows' 50 in 2002, and Lakeside Ridge's 28 and Liberty Village's 94 on the same day in September 2005, with a twelve-lot filing in 2016 last. Five of the continuation filings carry a lot count one short of the inclusive range printed in their own titles — Lakeside No. 2 is titled 166-192 and counted at 26, Lakecrest No. 3 is titled 178-325 and counted at 147 — and this page reports the county's count and the county's title without reconciling them. The street names run in registers, one per era, and the county's address file is where you can see it. The 1963-to-1973 tracts are named for lakes: Mead, Tahoe, Champlain, Manitoba, Shasta, Winnepeg as the county spells it, Fond du Lac, Santee, Pena Blanca, Nicaragua, Salinas and Summit, with Lakeside Drive and Stearn Lake Drive among them. Lakeside No. 5, filed in 1973, breaks the pattern for cats — Wildcat, Jaguar and Panther. Lincoln Terrace, recorded in 1997, is Andrew Johnson, John Hay, William Seward and Chase; Enchanted Vista, in 2000, is Imagination, Dream View, Magical and Shimmering; and Liberty Village, in 2005, is Senate, Judicial, Cabinet, Democracy, Republic and Revolution. No source consulted for this page records who chose any of them, so what is published here is the pattern in the record and not a reason for it. School assignment is unusually straightforward. Ford Elementary stands inside the boundary on a 9.9-acre Tucson Unified parcel at 8001 East Stella Road, immediately west of the park, and twenty-three point queries on Pima County's attendance-area layer return the same three campuses at every one of them: Ford Elementary, Secrist Middle at 3400 South Houghton Road and Santa Rita High at 3951 South Pantano Road, which sits against the western edge. LiveBy returns those same three as assigned, so there is no split anywhere in the square mile and the two records agree completely. They agree on grade spans too, where Pima County's schools layer does not: the federal Common Core of Data directory gives Ford as prekindergarten through sixth grade, Secrist as sixth through eighth and Santa Rita as eighth through twelfth, and LiveBy gives the same three, while the county layer reads K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 — so confirm a specific grade placement with the district rather than from a map. One charter campus is also inside the boundary, La Paloma Academy's Lakeside campus at 8140 East Golf Links Road, serving kindergarten through eighth grade by the federal directory's record of it; it is not an assigned school, and this site does not rate schools. Zoning here does not tell you what is on the ground, and the parcel record is what settles it. Pima County records 1,649 parcels lying wholly inside, running to 421 acres at a 0.168-acre median, and 1,521 of them carry the county's single-family use code over 258 acres. R-1 is the largest district at 1,111 parcels over 224 acres with a 0.171-acre median lot — but 160 parcels are zoned O-3, an office district, and 155 of those are single-family houses; 116 are zoned C-2 and 94 of those are houses; 114 are zoned C-1 and 48 of those are houses. Nearly three hundred detached houses on their own lots here sit in a commercial or office district, which is the reverse of what the same query found a few miles north on this site's Carriage Park page, where commercial districts held condominium units. Three parcels are zoned RX-1 and they are the park, 49.82 acres between them. Three apartment properties account for about 35 acres on three parcels: 21.4 acres on Golf Links Road, 8.1 at Springhill on Lakeside Parkway and 6.0 on Stella Road. Homeowner association status depends on which filing a house is in. Six associations hold mapped common ground — Liberty Village over 4.4 acres on four parcels, Lincoln Terrace over 2.0 on two, Jennifer Meadows over 1.1 on three, Enchanted Vista over 0.9 on two, Lakeside Ridge over about a sixth of an acre and Manitoba Development over a twenty-fifth — and every one of them belongs to a filing recorded in 1997 or later. The Lakeside and Lakecrest tracts of 1963 to 1977, which are most of the houses here, hold no common-area parcel under any association name at all. No dues figure is published on this page, because the closed record does not aggregate one; ask for the specific subdivision's disclosure rather than assuming the block's. Unlike most of the square miles on this site, this one is not registered to a neighborhood association: the City of Tucson's association layer returns two polygons touching this ground, Groves Lincoln Park to the south and Dietz to the north, and neither covers it. The name is first-party all the same — it is the name on the recorded plats, on the City's park and lake, and on four streets inside. The boundary is four streets. East Golf Links Road runs the north side, East Escalante Road the south, South Pantano Road the west and South Camino Seco the east, and all four check against Pima County's own centerlines within a couple of metres: the median offset between centreline and boundary edge is 2.8 metres on Golf Links, 1.4 on Escalante, 1.1 on Pantano and 2.4 on Camino Seco, with no vertex more than about 17 metres out along the span each of them shares with the boundary. The east side is not straight — Camino Seco bends north-west for its last half mile before Golf Links, and the boundary bends with it, which is why this is not quite a full section square. A geodesic integration of the ring gives 588.32 acres, 0.9193 square miles, in a block 0.991 miles wide by 1.008 deep on a 3.804-mile perimeter; the full section square would be 639.27 acres, so the 50.95 acres east of that bend lie outside. The whole of it is in the City of Tucson — all 1,649 parcels lying wholly inside read Tucson on the county's jurisdiction field, with no exception — and all twenty-three interior grid points return council Ward 4, the same ward the City gives for the park. All 1,658 official county address points inside read ZIP 85730 and city Tucson, unanimously, across sixty street names. The census estimate over the same boundary counts 2,306 housing units — 1,180 owner-occupied, 949 renter-occupied and 177 vacant — against those 1,649 parcels, and the difference is the three apartment properties, where one parcel carries many homes. What is just outside matters as much as what is in. Lincoln Regional Park — 419.4 acres by the City of Tucson's own figure, and a Regional Park in the City's classification — begins on the far side of East Escalante Road about twenty-five metres from the south edge. Pantano River Park, the Pima County corridor along the Pantano Wash, comes within about ten metres of the west edge, and Chuck Huckelberry Loop access is a few steps away: a Camino Seco access point about fifteen metres out, three Pantano Edge Drive access points within about a hundred, the Golf Links trailhead with ten parking spaces and one accessible space about 170 metres out, and the Michael Perry Park trailhead with 82 spaces and eight accessible ones about 380. Pima Community College's East Campus is about 0.6 miles away and the mapped Davis-Monthan Air Force Base boundary about a mile. Measured from the nearest boundary edge, Park Place Mall is about 2.8 miles north-west, the nearest Interstate 10 ramp about 4.6, El Con Mall about 5.6, Tucson International Airport about 6.4 at its mapped edge, the University of Arizona about 7.6, Tucson City Hall about 9.1 and Tucson Mall about 10.8. The ground immediately north across Golf Links Road, between Golf Links and 22nd Street, is this site's Dietz page, and this boundary's whole north edge lies against it.

Lakeside Park is an affordable neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the southeast side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by TUSD (Ford Elementary, Secrist Middle, Santa Rita High). Homes trade in the $150K – $425K range, with an average sale price of $285,000 across roughly 2,300 homes and a population of about 5,700. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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