Colfax, Washington.
Typical home $319,893 (+1.4% in a year). Pullman, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$848 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,403 +1%
- $315,490$319,893 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,049 +16%
- $276,844$319,893 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.
- Colfax$1,679
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Colfax, WA rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colfax, Whitman County, Washington
Colfax is a city of 2,782 people in Whitman County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Whitman County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colfax is a small city in Whitman County, in the rolling farm country of eastern Washington. Residents are a little older than in the typical American town, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services also giving people jobs. Whitman Hospital & Medical Center and the Colfax School District are among the largest workplaces in town. The typical trip to work is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Steptoe Butte State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, McCroskey State Park offers more protected land, and the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail is another longer drive. In winter, Tamarack Ski Area is a longer drive away.
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- 1,167households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whitman County had 18,880 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 25°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 50°. About 33 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pullman Northwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Colfax
- Whitman Hospital & Medical CenterCritical access hospital311FTE
- Colfax School DistrictSchool district66FTE
- Colfax of CascadiaMedical41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 318 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colfax’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 Whitman County and the Pullman, WA metro.
Colfax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colfax$319,893
- 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 Colfax 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.
- Colfax29.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Colfax26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Colfax9
Zip codes with a Colfax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colfax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.