Appleton, Washington.
Typical home $342,237 (-0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$984 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $251 -0%
- $342,488$342,237 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,999 +3%
- $333,238$342,237 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.
- Appleton$1,796
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Appleton, WA fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Appleton, Klickitat County, Washington
The Census does not count Appleton on its own, so the figures here are Klickitat County's. Half the county's households earn more than $71,042 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Klickitat County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Klickitat County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Appleton is a small community in Klickitat County, in south-central Washington. Across Klickitat County, most homes are lived in by their owners. The winters are cold and the summers are warm, with December the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, or in farming, forestry and mining. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier. The county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, so work has been changing slowly.
Things to do. Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a short drive away. Celilo Falls, a waterfall, and the Maryhill Museum of Art, a museum, are both a longer drive away.
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- 9,872households
- 46.8median age
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Klickitat County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Klickitat County had 7,092 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 49°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Snowden weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Klickitat County
- InsituAircraft manufacturing460
- Goldendale School DistrictSchool district185FTE
- Klickitat Valley HealthCritical access hospital179FTE
- Skyline HospitalCritical access hospital111FTE
- White Salmon Valley School DistrictSchool district110FTE
- Innovative Compsite EngineeringPlate, laminated plastics, manufacturing76
- Klickitat PUD Goldendale OfficeElectric power distribution systems65
- WinemakersGrape farming without making wine52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,392 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Klickitat County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Klickitat County.
Appleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Appleton$342,237
- 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 Appleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Appleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.