Arizona Ranks among Nation’s Fastest-Growing Housing Markets

A new study has revealed that Arizona had the sixth-highest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025.

Home services specialists Cinch Home Services analyzed census data to find which states have had the largest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025.

Arizona experienced the sixth-highest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025, with an increase of 9.5%, 71.4% more than the national average. Housing units increased from 3,082,004 in 2020 to 3,373,746 in 2025, an overall rise of 291,742.

Top 10 states with the largest increase in housing units

Utah saw the largest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025, with the number of housing units increasing 13.5% from 2020 to 2025. This is nearly two and a half times the US average increase of 5.5% in housing units over the time period that was measured. Overall, the number of housing units increased from 1,151,414 in 2020, to 1,307,088 in 2025, a net increase of 155,674.

Idaho had the second-largest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025, with the number of housing units increasing 12.9% in that time. This is 134.3% above the US average change in housing units between 2020 and 2025. Between 2020 and 2025, Idaho had an increase of 97,296 housing units, going from 751,859 housing units in 2020 to 849,155 housing units in 2025.

Texas had the third-highest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025, at an increase of 10.9%, which was 96.7% above the national average. The Lone Star State also saw the largest overall increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025 of any state in the top ten, with an increase of 1,258,931 housing units in this time, ahead of the next highest increase of 923,689 experienced in Florida. In 2020, there were 11,589,314 housing units in the state, increasing to 12,848,245 housing units in 2025.

With a 10.0% increase in housing units from 2020 to 2025, South Carolina experienced the fourth-highest percentage increase in America. The Palmetto State’s increase in housing units is 81.3% above the national average of 5.5%. Overall, housing units increased from 2,344,968 in 2020 to 2,579,744 in 2025, a total increase of 234,776.

North Carolina saw the fifth-highest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025, with an increase of 9.8%, 76.6% above the national average. The number of housing units in the Tar Heel State increased by 459,334 from 4,708,718 in 2020 to 5,168,052 in 2025.

With an increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025 of 9.4%, 69.5% more than the national average, Florida had the seventh-highest percentage increase in housing units. The Sunshine State saw the number of units go up by 923,689, from 9,865,358 housing units in 2020 to 10,789,047 in 2025.

South Dakota experienced the eighth-highest percentage increase in housing units between 2020 and 2025, with an increase of 9.2%, 67.2% above the national average of 5.5%. The Mount Rushmore State went from 393,371 housing units in 2020 to 429,698 housing units in 2025, an overall increase of 36,327.

Colorado had an increase in housing units of 8.6% between 2020 and 2025, 56.3% above the national average, and the ninth highest percentage increase of a state between 2020 and 2025. Overall, housing units increased from 2,491,404 in 2020 to 2,706,544 in 2025, a total increase of 215,140 housing units.

Rounding out the top ten is Tennessee, with an increase in housing units of 8.6%, 55.0% above the national average. Housing units in the Volunteer State increased by 259,607 overall, from 3,031,600 housing units in 2020 to 3,291,207 in 2025.

“What stands out about Arizona’s position in the top ten is that it stands at around 70% above the national rate of growth on a base of more than three million existing units,” says a spokesperson for Cinch Home Services. “Sustaining that pace at that size is harder than doing it from a smaller starting point. When nearly 300,000 homes are built within the same five-year window, those properties will all hit their first major maintenance milestones around the same time. That means a wave of HVAC replacements, water heater failures, and roofing issues could hit Arizona homeowners simultaneously, potentially straining local service capacity and driving up costs.”