Bingen, Washington.
Typical home $430,287 (-0.2% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,263 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $883 -0%
- $431,170$430,287 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,381 +14%
- $375,906$430,287 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.
- Bingen$2,258
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Bingen, WA fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bingen, Skamania County, Washington
Bingen is a city of 778 people in Skamania County. Half its households earn more than $73,833 a year and half less, against $93,265 across Skamania County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Skamania County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Skamania County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bingen is a small city on the Washington side of the Columbia River, set among the river's hills and close to the White Salmon River. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is valued higher than the town's incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs near freezing, and summers turn warm in August. Snow falls most winters, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, the building trades, or transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Skamania County, the largest workplaces include Skamania Lodge, Silver Star Industries and SDS Lumber. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Hood River and the White Salmon River both run in or beside town, and Koberg Beach State Recreation Site, a protected shoreline area, sits right alongside. The International Museum of Carousel Art is also in or beside town. A short drive away, the Mount Hood Railroad is a railway museum, and Memaloose State Park is a protected area to explore.
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- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Skamania County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Skamania County had 2,235 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 55°. About 17 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hood River Experiment Station weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Skamania County
- Skamania LodgeHotels321
- Skamania Lodge -Benchmark StevensonHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities321
- Silver Star IndustriesArchitectural woodwork and fixtures manufacturing140
- SDS LumberManufacturing136
- Wilkins, Kaiser & OlsenDimension lumber, softwood, made from logs or bolts121
- Stevenson-Carson School DistrictSchool district98FTE
- Custom InterfaceCable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire89
- A&J StoresGrocery stores58
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,186 people in all across the county; Bingen has one of its own. School districts come 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
- WildfireVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bingen’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 Skamania County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Bingen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bingen$430,287
- 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.
- Bingen5
Zip codes with a Bingen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bingen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.