Zip lookup · WA

98026
Edmonds, Washington.

Edmonds, Snohomish County, WA · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro · population 38,976

What it costs per month · 98026 $4,348/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,327 (+115%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $9,794 -1%
$838,271$828,477 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $106,739 +15%
$721,738$828,477 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 98026 $4,348 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 98026$4,348
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.

Typical home values in zip 98026 fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 98026 rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 98026 runs $3,303/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,780 in Jan 2025.

That is $5,768 a month against $2,464 rent: a $4,348 mortgage payment, plus $532 property tax and $887 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 98026

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $5,768 Renting $2,464 Mortgage only $4,348
$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$5,768
  • Renting$2,464
  • Mortgage only$4,348

Property tax · $532/mo 0.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Snohomish County, WA

Insurance & upkeep · $887/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Edmonds, WA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $2,464 as of Sep 2026
+4.3%year on year
Typical home value $828,477 as of Sep 2026
-1.2%year on year

Asking rent — 98026

Against the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 98026 $2,464 Seattle $2,250 United States $1,932
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2018 2022 2026
  • 98026$2,464
  • Seattle$2,250
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 98026

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 98026 $828,477 Seattle $720,147 United States $366,157
$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 98026$828,477
  • Seattle$720,147
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 65 zips in range — sorting picks from all 65.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
2.2 98037 Lynnwood 29,723 $2,187 $761,218
2.9 98036 Lynnwood 42,370 $2,013 $792,405
3.1 98020 Edmonds 19,551 $2,261 $1,127,472
3.2 98043 Mountlake Terrace 23,101 $2,112 $658,102
3.5 98087 Lynnwood 41,796 $2,164 $710,177
5.3 98275 Mukilteo 21,323 $2,355 $888,849
5.7 98204 Everett 45,130 $1,840 $549,790
5.7 98155 Seattle 36,511 $2,169 $789,336
6.2 98012 Bothell 77,041 $2,609 $928,453
6.4 98021 Bothell 35,631 $3,134 $1,059,943
6.6 98133 Seattle 53,249 $1,904 $721,343
6.7 98177 Seattle 21,090 $3,143 $1,089,953
7.0 98028 Kenmore 23,741 $2,612 $964,594
8.0 98208 Everett 60,915 $2,000 $728,590
8.2 98011 Bothell 28,963 $2,221 $976,799
8.3 98125 Seattle 44,520 $1,914 $778,253
8.6 98203 Everett 35,517 $2,187 $617,950
9.1 98236 Clinton 7,199 — $730,148
9.4 98346 Kingston 9,920 $2,667 $656,532
9.9 98034 Kirkland 52,531 $2,520 $987,904
10.4 98342 Indianola 1,338 — $701,762
10.4 98117 Seattle 35,711 $2,443 $944,564
10.6 98072 Woodinville 24,446 $2,517 $1,227,278
10.6 98115 Seattle 54,349 $2,255 $1,007,739
10.7 98296 Snohomish 27,896 $3,482 $1,008,651
11.2 98103 Seattle 52,671 $2,291 $875,835
11.8 98107 Seattle 28,776 $2,332 $817,554
11.8 98340 Hansville 2,721 — $716,535
12.3 98105 Seattle 49,767 $1,970 $1,121,900
12.8 98033 Kirkland 40,982 $2,762 $1,517,845

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.