Brinnon, Washington.
Typical home $360,800 (+0.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,038 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $81 +0%
- $360,719$360,800 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,590 +12%
- $322,210$360,800 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.
- Brinnon$1,894
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Brinnon, WA rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brinnon, Jefferson County, Washington
Brinnon, in Jefferson County, had 907 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $62,857 a year and half less, against $74,048 across Jefferson County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brinnon is a small community with an older population, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are Jefferson General Hospital, Port Townsend Paper and the Port Townsend School District. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. The Dosewallips River runs in or beside town, and Dosewallips State Park, a protected area, is right alongside it. The Duckabush River, another river, is also close by. Olympic National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 364households
- 17%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 9,204 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 52°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Quilcene Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Jefferson General HospitalCritical access hospital593FTE
- Port Townsend PaperPaper products made in paper mills307
- Port Townsend School DistrictSchool district159FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores128
- Jefferson HealthcareFamily physicians' offices113
- Jefferson County CourthouseGeneral public administration112
- The Food Co-opGrocery stores108
- Chimacum School DistrictSchool district100FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,779 people in all across the county; Brinnon has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Brinnon’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 Jefferson County.
Brinnon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brinnon$360,800
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Brinnon 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.
- Brinnon29.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brinnon28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Brinnon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brinnon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.