Bow, Washington.
Typical home $839,369 (+2.8% in a year). Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,476 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,694 +3%
- $816,675$839,369 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,794 +17%
- $714,576$839,369 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.
- Bow$4,406
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Bow, WA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bow, Skagit County, Washington
Bow, in Skagit County, had 203 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Skagit County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Skagit County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bow is a very small community in Skagit County, Washington, home to only a small number of people. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for most of the country, and no one in the community is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are cool rather than harsh, with the coldest weather in December, and summers are mild, warmest in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Skagit County, some of the largest workplaces are Skagit Valley Hospital, Skagit Valley College and Janicki Industries. The typical commute is short, and unemployment across the county is about where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Larrabee State Park and Bay View State Park are both protected areas a short drive away, good for time outdoors near the water. Saddlebag Island State Park, also a short drive away, is another protected area to explore. For a longer outing, Deception Pass State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
What people in Skagit County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Skagit County had 54,140 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 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 75° and lows near 53°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Vernon Wnw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Skagit County
- Skagit Valley HospitalGeneral hospital1,861FTE
- Janicki IndustriesMolds, industrial, manufacturing1,060
- Skagit Valley CollegeUniversity or college804
- Mount Vernon School DistrictSchool district801FTE
- Paccar Technical CenterHeavy trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture556
- Island HospitalGeneral hospital545FTE
- Sedro-Woolley School DistrictSchool district541FTE
- Janicki IndustriesMolds, industrial, manufacturing475
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 128 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,112 people in all across the county; Bow has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bow’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 Skagit County and the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
Bow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bow$839,369
- 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 Bow listings — 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bow19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bow6
Zip codes with a Bow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.