Clinton, Washington.
Typical home $713,262 (+0.7% in a year). Oak Harbor, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,975 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,252 +1%
- $708,011$713,262 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,004 +5%
- $681,259$713,262 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.
- Clinton$3,744
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 75 years.
Typical home values in Clinton, WA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, Island County, Washington
Clinton, in Island County, had 956 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Island County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Island 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a small community on Whidbey Island in Island County, home to fewer people than most towns that appear on a map. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country, and a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and damp rather than harsh, with December the coldest month and highs staying above freezing, and August brings pleasantly warm days. Over a year, rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount of moisture.
Work. Residents of Clinton work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Island County, the largest workplaces include Oak Harbor School District, Whidbey General Hospital and Nichols Brothers Boat Builders. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has about as many jobs as before, with a slight dip over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour is a museum about aircraft and how they are built. A longer drive brings you to Seattle, where the Space Needle is one of the best known tourist attractions in the country and the Seattle Art Museum offers a large collection. Lake Washington is also within a longer drive for time by the water.
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- 648households
- 11%below the poverty line
What people in Island County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Island County had 18,140 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 73° and lows near 55°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Everett Snohomish Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Island County
- Oak Harbor School DistrictSchool district711FTE
- Whidbey General HospitalCritical access hospital456FTE
- Amentum ServicesAircraft maintenance and repair services218
- WalmartDiscount department stores204
- Nichols Brothers Boat BuildersShipyard146
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores145
- Island TransitCommuter transit systems, mixed mode143
- South Whidbey School DistrictSchool district128FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,504 people in all across the county; Clinton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- 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 Clinton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Island County and the Oak Harbor, WA metro.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$713,262
- 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 5 Clinton listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Clinton19.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clinton66
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clinton14
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.