Burlington, Washington.
Typical home $532,376 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $2,059 (+6.6%). Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,528 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,611 +0%
- $530,764$532,376 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,949 +15%
- $462,427$532,376 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.
- Burlington$2,794
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Burlington, WA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Burlington, WA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Burlington runs $1,656/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,758 in Jan 2025.
That is $3,715 a month against $2,059 rent: a $2,794 mortgage payment, plus $351 property tax and $570 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Burlington
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$3,715
- Renting$2,059
- Mortgage only$2,794
Property tax · $351/mo 0.79% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Skagit County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $570/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 Burlington, Skagit County, Washington
Burlington is a city of 9,152 people in Skagit County. Half its households earn more than $80,475 a year and half less, against $89,263 across Skagit County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. 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 residents 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. Burlington is a small city in Skagit County whose residents are younger, on the whole, than in many American towns. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect. Renters make up more of the town than owners, which is unusual for a place with homes that cost a good deal to buy. Winters are cool and wet, with December the coldest month and highs staying above freezing, and summers are mild, with August the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, or in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Burlington are the Burlington-Edison School District, Costco Wholesale and Fred Meyer Stores. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people travel to work rather than working from home, with a commute of moderate length. Jobs across Skagit County have grown only slightly over the past year, and unemployment there has held about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive brings you to Bay View State Park, a protected shoreline area, and to the Lincoln Theatre, a theatre in the area. The Museum of Northwest Art and the Heritage Flight Museum are also a short drive away for an afternoon indoors. Farther afield, Deception Pass State Park is a longer drive and one of the best known protected areas in the region.
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- 3,925households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burlington
- Burlington-Edison School DistrictSchool district421FTE
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer352
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters304
- FedExCourier and express delivery services252
- Pacific WoodtechLaminated veneer lumber manufacturing200
- TargetDiscount department stores153
- Puget Sound EnergyPower generation, fossil fuel, electric109
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services107
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,486 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burlington’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.
Burlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burlington$532,376
- 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 Burlington listings — 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.
- Burlington38.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burlington49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burlington14
Zip codes with a Burlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.