Homes within a 30-minute drive of Arizona State University, Tempe

Where to live if you work at ASU's Tempe campus — measured by drive time across the road network, not by a circle drawn on a map.

ASU's Tempe campus is one of the metro's largest single employment sites, and unusually well served by light rail — which makes it one of the few Phoenix destinations where a non-driving commute is genuinely practical.

What is actually within reach

Of the homes currently for sale on the Phoenix metro map, 128 are within an estimated 30-minute drive of ASU's Tempe campus. Tightening the budget changes the picture quickly:

The median asking price inside that 30-minute band is $497,000.

Which areas those homes are in

The 30-minute band is not one neighbourhood. Ranked by how much inventory each contributes:

Why the circle on the map lies

A radius treats every direction as equal. Roads do not. Around ASU's Tempe campus, two homes the same distance out can differ by fifteen minutes or more depending on which corridor they sit on and which way the morning peak runs. That is the entire reason this page counts minutes instead of miles.

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Drive times are estimates from road-network distance, not live traffic, and the destination is the campus location rather than a specific building entrance. Treat a five-minute difference between two homes as noise and a fifteen-minute difference as real. Listing counts move as inventory changes; this page refreshes hourly.

Location and background: Arizona State University. Counts computed from 930 active for-sale listings across the Phoenix metro; rentals and vacant land are excluded. Pages in this series are published only where there are at least 25 listings inside the 30-minute band.