Battle Ground, Washington.
Typical home $603,770 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $2,163 (+2.7%). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,647 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,730 +0%
- $602,041$603,770 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,535 +13%
- $535,235$603,770 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.
- Battle Ground$3,169
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Battle Ground, WA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Battle Ground, WA rose 2.7% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Battle Ground runs $2,066/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,350 in Oct 2023.
That is $4,228 a month against $2,163 rent: a $3,169 mortgage payment, plus $413 property tax and $646 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Battle Ground
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$4,228
- Renting$2,163
- Mortgage only$3,169
Property tax · $413/mo 0.82% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clark County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $646/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 Battle Ground, Clark County, Washington
Battle Ground is a city of 20,743 people in Clark County. Half its households earn more than $104,977 a year and half less, against $97,536 across Clark County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. 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 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. Battle Ground is a city in Clark County, Washington, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Residents are younger than in many American towns, and household incomes run a little above the county's, with a small share living below the poverty line. Winters are cold but rarely snowy, with December the coldest month, while summers stay warm and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Battle Ground are Tapani, a utility line and construction company, along with Walmart and Fred Meyer Stores. Commutes are of middling length, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Battle Ground Lake State Park, a protected area with a lake, is a short drive away. Fort Vancouver, a historic fort, and the Lewis River are a longer drive away, as is Multnomah Falls, a waterfall, for a day out.
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- 7,444households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents 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, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Battle Ground
- TapaniUtility line, construction605
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters295
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters241
- First Student221
- TPIPlumbing contractors125
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores101
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores99
- Wolf IndustriesSingle-family house construction by general contractors99
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,407 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat 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 Battle Ground’s census tracts, 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 Clark County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Battle Ground home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Battle Ground$603,770
- 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 Battle Ground listings, and the typical home goes pending in 38 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Battle Ground33.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Battle Ground38
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Battle Ground170
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Battle Ground47
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Battle Ground$577,411
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Battle Ground99.39%
Zip codes with a Battle Ground address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Battle Ground — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.