Phoenix Teardown Index

13,691 Phoenix-area teardown-profile parcels

We scanned all 1,742,670 Maricopa County parcels and found 13,691 with a teardown profile — land worth far more than the aging building on it, the structural signature of a redevelopment site. This is a city-by-city census of every one, not a sample. Built from public assessor records, fully reproducible, updated 2026-06-26.

Teardown-profile parcels

13,691

across 41 Maricopa cities · median build year 1972 · ~87% mean land share

In an Opportunity Zone

2,085

15.2% of these teardown-profile parcels

Out-of-state owner

2,094

15.3% of these teardown-profile parcels

Where they are

City	Teardown-profile parcels	In Opp. Zone	Out-of-state owner	Median year	Mean land share
Mesa	4,847	657	1,270	1972	88%
Phoenix	4,753	853	418	1970	86%
Glendale	816	101	47	1973	88%
Sun Lakes	654	0	102	1977	84%
Peoria	533	12	24	1973	87%
Scottsdale	402	175	55	1969	83%
Tempe	213	64	41	1971	83%
Chandler	161	30	14	1972	89%
Buckeye	155	7	11	1973	88%
Avondale	110	22	11	1973	89%
Cave Creek	101	0	12	1975	91%
Apache Junction	88	0	13	1972	89%
Wittmann	81	0	3	1973	87%
Unincorporated Maricopa County	74	13	15	1971	90%
Litchfield Park	68	0	0	1973	88%

Showing the top 15 of 41 cities. Download the full 41-city table as CSV →

Methodology — reproducible from public data

Data vintage: 2026-06-26 · Source: Maricopa County Assessor (public records).

Maricopa County parcels where the land value is more than 70% of total assessed value (land + improvement) and the structure was built between year 1 and 1979 — i.e. an aging building on land worth far more than the house, the structural profile of a teardown/redevelopment candidate. Reproducible from public Maricopa County Assessor data.

Exact rule: market = 'Maricopa' AND land_value / (land_value + improvement_value) > 0.70 AND year_built BETWEEN 1 AND 1979.

Every figure on this page is a city-level aggregate of public records — no individual parcels, addresses, or owners are published. The parcel count, median build year, and land-share columns reproduce directly from the public Maricopa County Assessor data using the rule above. The Opportunity-Zone column additionally joins each parcel to the public U.S. Treasury Opportunity Zone census-tract designations; the out-of-state column uses the assessor's owner mailing-address state. All three sources are public, so every figure remains independently reproducible.

This census is a deliberately strict structural profile (land worth far more than an aging building). Our calibrated redevelopment signal flags 30,517 Maricopa parcels as teardown candidates — broader, because it also catches partial-teardown / value-add cases the strict land-share rule misses. That signal is not just a heuristic: on a leakage-safe retrospective backtest it concentrates real demolitions and new-SFR permits at 2.95× the base rate in its top decile. See the teardown-signal backtest →