Amboy, Washington.
Typical home $689,866 (+0.4% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,950 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,885 +0%
- $686,981$689,866 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,482 +15%
- $600,385$689,866 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.
- Amboy$3,621
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Amboy, WA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amboy, Clark County, Washington
Amboy, in Clark County, had 1,800 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Clark County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clark 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Amboy is a small rural community in Clark County, Washington, with a population that is small enough for most people to know one another by sight. Homes here are worth considerably more than the typical American home. Winters are cold and damp, and snow is rare and light. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many larger places, and the daily commute is long. Across Clark County, some of the largest workplaces are Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center, the Vancouver School District and the Evergreen School District.
Things to do. Lake Merwin, a reservoir, and Battle Ground Lake State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away. Fort Vancouver, a historic fort, is a longer drive. So is Multnomah Falls, a waterfall, for a day out.
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- 27%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
What people in Clark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 182,798 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 50°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Battle Ground weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clark County
- Peacehealth Southwest Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,910FTE
- Vancouver School DistrictSchool district2,732FTE
- Evergreen School District (Clark)School district2,515FTE
- Clark County-State of WashingtonGeneral public administration1,724
- Legacy Salmon Creek HospitalGeneral hospital1,450FTE
- PH Shared Services-AdministrationHealthcare1,439
- Department of EnergyFederal government1,286
- Battle Ground School DistrictSchool district1,240FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 361 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 47,106 people in all across the county; Amboy has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Amboy’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Clark County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Amboy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amboy$689,866
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Amboy12
Zip codes with a Amboy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amboy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.