Acme, Washington.
Typical home $486,817 (+1.2% in a year). Bellingham, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,325 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,994 +1%
- $480,822$486,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,982 +7%
- $456,835$486,817 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.
- Acme$2,555
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 55 years.
Typical home values in Acme, WA rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Acme, Whatcom County, Washington
Acme, in Whatcom County, had 229 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Whatcom County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Whatcom County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Acme is a very small community in Whatcom County, where the Samish River and Hutchinson Creek run in or beside town. Winters are cool and damp, with highs in December well above freezing and only a little snow in a typical year, while July is mild and pleasantly warm. Homes here are valued above what the county's incomes would easily stretch to, so it is a place many people settle into for the long term.
Work. Residents of Acme work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Whatcom County, the largest workplaces include St. Joseph Medical Center, Western Washington University and the Bellingham School District. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Lake Whatcom and the Nooksack River are both a short drive away, good for time by the water. Farther afield, Whatcom Falls Park is a longer drive away, as is the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention for a rainy-day outing indoors. The Samish River and Hutchinson Creek are right in or beside town for a quiet walk along the water.
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What people in Whatcom County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whatcom County had 93,720 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 54°. About 3 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bellingham Ssw weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Whatcom County
- St. Joseph Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,356FTE
- Western Washington UniversityUniversity or college2,208
- Bellingham School DistrictSchool district1,325FTE
- BP Products North AmericaOil refineries893
- Lynden DoorDoor units, prehung, wood and covered wood, manufacturing629
- Ferndale School DistrictSchool district579FTE
- Whatcom Community CollegeUniversity or college497
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer422
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 194 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,187 people in all across the county; Acme has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Acme’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Whatcom County and the Bellingham, WA metro.
Acme home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Acme$486,817
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Acme address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Acme — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.