Find your street in North Central Phoenix

What the quiz weighs, and why

The eight questions are not filler. Each one maps to a decision that actually separates one stretch of North Central Phoenix from another. Budget and bedroom count set the floor, because the corridor above a million dollars behaves very differently pocket to pocket. Lot size is asked separately from house size on purpose: buyers here regularly trade interior square footage for land, and the ones who do not know that about themselves tour the wrong houses for a month.

The school question weighs a Catholic college-prep path, a public International Baccalaureate path and a public charter path differently, because the campuses that anchor those paths sit in different parts of the corridor and physically shorten or lengthen your mornings. Commute direction matters for the same plain reason. Flood irrigation is asked because it is the single most polarizing feature in the neighborhood, and walkability to dinner is asked because the corridor has real pockets where that is possible and real pockets where it is not. The last question, what you want the house to be, separates buyers looking for a restored midcentury ranch from buyers who want something already renovated or a lot to build on.

An honest note about the result

This is a starting point, not a verdict. A quiz that scores eight answers cannot know that one block of an otherwise quiet street backs an arterial, that a particular lot sits low and holds irrigation water badly, or that the house you would actually love is going to come up off-market in six weeks. What it can do is narrow five pockets to two or three so your first Saturday of touring is spent in the right places. If the result surprises you, that is useful information too — go read the reasoning and then argue with it.

Anything in this tool that looks like a market statistic is computed live from a sample of 22 recent closed sales in Trevor's ARMLS IDX feed, split across 85012 (6), 85013 (3), 85020 (5), 85021 (8). Several of those pocket samples are small. They are indicative of what has been closing, not a complete history of the market. See recent sales.

How the five pockets actually differ

We will only claim differences we can evidence. The first is geography: 85012 and 85014 sit closest to Central Avenue and the arterials that carry you downtown or toward Sky Harbor, 85013 is the heart of the original Between the Sevens plat, and 85020 and 85021 sit north and west where lots and new construction tend to open up. The second is the school anchors, which are fixed addresses you can drive: Brophy and Xavier College Preparatory and Central High School on Central Avenue in 85012, Madison Meadows Middle School in 85013, and the Madison Rose Lane, Madison Park and Madison Traditional campuses in 85014.

The third is what the sale sample shows about price and land, and that is where the caveat matters most, because with 22 sales spread over five zips no single pocket has enough closings to describe definitively. Across the whole sample the median lot is 0.31 acres and the median price is $1,290,000; the pocket medians on your results screen are drawn from the handful of sales inside each zip. Use them to see direction, not to set a price. For a fuller picture, walk the corridor map, test your instincts on Price That House, or check the practical details in the Almanac.