Wakefield Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$231,000

Price range

$150K – $300K

School district

TUSD (C E Rose, Hollinger or Mission View Elementary, Utterback Middle, Pueblo High)

Approximate population

~4,800

Approximate number of homes

~2,200 homes

What defines this area

• Wakefield Middle School standing inside the boundary
• The Tucson Rodeo Grounds across South 6th Avenue
• El Pueblo Park and its county library across Irvington Road
• Two paved shared-use paths, one of them on the Loop
• Twelfth Avenue west, Sixth Avenue east, Irvington Road south
• Interstate 10 closing the northeast corner at Exit 261
• Twenty-eight recorded plats, every one filed between 1915 and 1946
• Six National City filings holding 1,259 of its 1,530 platted lots
• All 91 recent closings detached, none attached
• Recent closings built 1936-2025, median year 1950
• Living areas 576-2,424 sq ft, median 1,238
• R-2 and R-3 zoning across the residential ground, no R-1 at all
• Rodeo Wash and the Tucson Diversion Channel crossing it
• Wholly inside the City of Tucson, entirely in Ward 1
• Two ZIP codes across its 2,341 county address points

About Wakefield

Wakefield is a 576-acre rectangle on Tucson's south side, bounded by South 12th Avenue on the west, South 6th Avenue on the east, West Irvington Road on the south, and West 44th Street and Interstate 10 across the north. It is a genuine rectangle, a little over half a mile wide and a mile and three-quarters tall, which makes it one of the easiest boundaries on this site to hold in your head. What it holds is small pre-war ground: the typical home that sold here over the last three years was a 1,238-square-foot detached house built around 1950, and it closed at $239,000. The name is the first thing to be precise about, because it is on the ground in exactly one place. Wakefield Middle School stands inside the boundary at 101 West 44th Street. No street inside carries the name, no recorded plat does, and the City of Tucson's register of neighborhood associations has no association of that name anywhere. What the register does have here is National City Northwest, an active Ward 1 association whose outline is a plain four-cornered rectangle of 352 acres covering the southern six-tenths of this boundary. Of 77 points tested evenly across the interior, 45 fall inside it and return it alone, and the other 32 are north of its line and return no registered association at all. Read that as a sample rather than a survey. Its northern edge is not arbitrary either. It sits on the section line that divides Township 14 South, Range 13 East, to within about seven feet of where the county's survey record puts that line. The plat record says the same thing the association's name does. Twenty-eight subdivision plats lie wholly inside the boundary, and every one of them was recorded between 1915 and 1946. The oldest is Whitestones Addition, 152 lots filed in October 1915. The bulk is one family of filings: National City and its numbered successors, six plats recorded between April 1931 and June 1945, holding 1,259 lots between them. Across all 28 the total is 1,530 lots against 2,120 parcels inside the line today. There is no post-war plat here at all, which is unusual on this side of town and is why the housing reads the way it does. Three of the four edges are survey lines as well as streets, each landing within a few feet of where the county's record puts the line. South 12th Avenue on the west runs on the section line; West Irvington Road on the south runs on the township line between Township 14 South and Township 15 South; West 44th Street on the north runs on the half-section line. South 6th Avenue is the exception. It is a road and nothing else, about 250 feet east of the nearest survey line, which is why it is the one edge that does not square with the grid the others were drawn on. The northeast corner is not a street at all but Interstate 10, whose centerline the boundary follows within about twenty-five to thirty-four feet across five consecutive corner points before meeting 6th Avenue. Five complete survey sections intersect the boundary. What sells here is small pre-war and early post-war houses, and all of it is detached. All 91 homes that closed inside this boundary over the last three years were single-family residences. Not one condominium and not one townhouse, which is the first boundary in this series of which that is true. They were built between 1936 and 2025 to a median year of 1950, and they closed between $80,000 and $380,000 against a $239,000 median and a $230,753 average, on a $240,000 list median. They took a median 17 days on market, 18 counting relists, at a sale-to-list ratio of 0.98. Twenty-three of the 91 closed above asking and 29 took a price reduction first. Living areas ran 576 to 2,424 square feet with a 1,238-square-foot median, and the median price per square foot was $191.93. The band on this page is the middle of that, not the whole of it. Seventy-five of the 91 closed between $150,000 and $300,000; eight closed under $150,000 and eight over $300,000, the highest at $380,000. Zoning is the other reason this ground is worth understanding before an offer. There are 2,120 parcels wholly inside the boundary, every one of them City of Tucson, and not one of them is zoned R-1. The count is 1,567 R-2, 313 C-2, 206 R-3, 29 C-1 and five O-3. R-2 and R-3 are the City's two mid-density residence zones, so a boundary platted in the 1930s and 1940s carries zoning that has always allowed more than one house on a lot in most of it. That matters more now than it used to: Tucson's middle housing amendment was adopted by Mayor and Council on 16 December 2025 and took effect on 1 January 2026, permitting middle housing including townhomes across essentially every residential zone in the city. The commercial ground is where you would expect it — the 6th Avenue and 12th Avenue frontages and the Interstate 10 end — which is why a residential street here can back onto a C-2 parcel. Two paved shared-use paths run inside the boundary, and Pima County records both as open and hard-surfaced: the Julian Wash Greenway across nine segments and about 3,885 feet, and a Rodeo Wash path across five segments and about 2,078 feet. The Julian Wash Greenway is one of the named components of the Chuck Huckelberry Loop, the county's 138-mile paved path system; the Rodeo Wash path is not, and this page does not claim it is. The Rodeo Wash Greenway I park strip lies wholly inside at about three and a half acres, and the Julian Wash Greenway crosses the boundary on its way through the south side. The City holds 57 real-property parcels inside the line, 24 of them under Parks and together about 4.8 acres, all of them filed under the National City plats. Drainage is mapped here and it is worth checking for a specific address rather than for a block. The county's regional flood control record puts five named reaches across the boundary with regulated setbacks. Rodeo Wash carries 75 feet in the 2,000-to-5,000-cubic-feet-per-second class and the Tucson Diversion Channel 100 feet in the 5,000-to-10,000 class; the 16th Street Wash and the Irvington Road drainage carry 25 feet each. Three more unnamed 25-foot reaches are mapped, two of them wholly inside. Rodeo Wash itself is mapped in three reaches, two with soft earthen banks and one lined in soil cement. The airport answer here is total rather than partial, and it is the plainest one this series has recorded. All 77 interior points fall inside the Tucson Airport Authority's avigation easement and disclosure area, which is drawn on the Federal Aviation Administration's traffic pattern airspace for Tucson International and allows for future planned runways. What that area does is defined in the Authority's own policy: it asks for avigation easements and noise disclosure statements on residential development inside it, through the City and County development review process. It is not a statutory seller notice. The territory that carries one, the Arizona Revised Statutes section 28-8461 area around Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, returns nothing here, and so do the county's approach-departure corridors and all three of its airport environs overlays. Whether a recorded avigation easement sits on a particular parcel is a title question, and the title commitment is where to ask it. School assignment is Tucson Unified throughout and the elementary assignment bands from south to north. Of the 77 interior points, 26 in the southern third return C E Rose PreK-8, 46 across the middle return Hollinger K-8 — which stands inside the boundary at 150 West Ajo Way — and the five northernmost return Mission View Elementary. Utterback Middle School and Pueblo High School are returned for every point. One thing that surprises people: Wakefield Middle School is open, enrolling 295 students in grades 6 through 8 as of the 2024-25 federal school year, and the county's attendance-area layer has no polygon for it at all. Standing inside a boundary and being the assigned middle school for it are two different things, and here only the first is true. Assignments are drawn by address and they change, so confirm the assignment for a specific address with the district before relying on it. Two landmarks sit just outside the line and both are worth knowing. The Tucson Rodeo Grounds is across 6th Avenue at 4823 South 6th Avenue, a City of Tucson facility of about 36 acres with a 175-by-450-foot arena, permanent grandstand seating, corrals and horse stalls. La Fiesta de los Vaqueros was established in 1925, was first held elsewhere in the city, and moved to this corner of 6th Avenue and Irvington Road in 1932 with seating for 3,000. Across Irvington to the south is El Pueblo Park, a 32.2-acre City community park in Ward 5 whose published amenities run to benches, bicycle racks, a drinking fountain, grills, horseshoe pits, picnic tables, a ramada and volleyball courts, with no restrooms. The Frank De La Cruz-El Pueblo Library, a Pima County branch, stands in the same park at 101 West Irvington Road. Two last things worth knowing before you look at a map. The boundary is split between two ZIP codes — 1,504 of its 2,341 county address points read 85714 and the other 837 read 85713 — and every one of the 77 interior points tested returns Ward 1. The Interstate 10 Exit 261 ramps meet the boundary at its northeast corner; the nearest Interstate 19 ramp is about a third of a mile out. Measured from the boundary's edge, Pima Community College's Desert Vista Campus is 1.2 miles, the Kino Sports Complex 1.7, the Tucson Convention Center and downtown about two, Tucson International Airport 2.1, Banner University Medical Center South 2.2, the University of Arizona 2.9 and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base 3.5.

Wakefield is an affordable neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the south side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by TUSD (C E Rose, Hollinger or Mission View Elementary, Utterback Middle, Pueblo High). Homes trade in the $150K – $300K range, with an average sale price of $231,000 across roughly 2,200 homes and a population of about 4,800. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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