Arlington, Washington.
Typical home $650,501 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $2,123 (+1.5%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,885 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,209 +0%
- $647,292$650,501 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $97,420 +18%
- $553,081$650,501 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.
- Arlington$3,414
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Arlington, WA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Arlington, WA rose 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Arlington runs $2,406/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,488 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,529 a month against $2,123 rent: a $3,414 mortgage payment, plus $418 property tax and $696 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Arlington
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.
- Owning all in$4,529
- Renting$2,123
- Mortgage only$3,414
Property tax · $418/mo 0.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Snohomish County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $696/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.
Living in Arlington, Snohomish County, Washington
Arlington is a city of 19,868 people in Snohomish County. Half its households earn more than $88,231 a year and half less, against $111,246 across Snohomish County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Snohomish County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Arlington is a small city where residents tend to be somewhat younger than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents are high, so housing is a real expense for many households. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect for the region, and a fair number of people work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. The largest workplaces in Arlington include Amazon, the Arlington School District and Walmart. A typical commute is fairly long, and unemployment across Snohomish County is unchanged from a year earlier.
Things to do. The Stillaguamish River runs in or beside town, and the Giant Cedar Stump, a tourist attraction, is also close by. For a short drive, Wenberg County Park is a protected area with room to get outdoors. Winters are cold and damp, with only a little snow, while summers are mild and warm, so the rivers and parks can be enjoyed for much of the year.
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- 7,695households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Snohomish County had 299,062 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 78° and lows near 47°. About 4 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arlington weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arlington
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,821
- Arlington School DistrictSchool district576FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters327
- Cascade Valley HospitalGeneral hospital256FTE
- Kellermeyer Bergensons ServicesJanitorial services237
- Swire Coca-cola, USASoft drink manufacturing190
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter148
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores139
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,289 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arlington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Snohomish County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Arlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arlington$650,501
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Arlington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 29 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Arlington36.25%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Arlington29
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arlington176
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Arlington48
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Arlington$631,178
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Arlington99.37%
Zip codes with a Arlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.