Concrete, Washington.
Typical home $247,909 (-0.8% in a year). Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$695 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,966 -1%
- $249,875$247,909 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,962 +9%
- $226,947$247,909 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.
- Concrete$1,301
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Concrete, WA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Concrete, Skagit County, Washington
Concrete is a town of 801 people in Skagit County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Concrete is a very small town in Skagit County, and most people here know one another by sight. Winters are cold and wet, with some snow, and summers are mild and pleasant. Rain and melted snow fall in large amounts through the year, and the surrounding hills stay green. Home values are modest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Skagit County, some of the biggest workplaces are Skagit Valley Hospital, Skagit Valley College and Janicki Industries. The typical commute is long, and few people work from home, so many residents travel some distance to their jobs. Unemployment across the county sits close to where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. Lake Shannon, a reservoir, and Jackman Creek, a stream, are both in or beside town, as is the Concrete Heritage Museum. Rockport State Park, a protected area of forest, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Baker Lake, a large reservoir, and Blum Basin Falls, a waterfall, are a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 44 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
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 42° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°. About 16 inches of snow and 71 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Concrete Ppl Fish Station weather station, under a mile 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; Concrete has two 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Concrete’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.
Concrete home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Concrete$247,909
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Concrete 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.
- Concrete27.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Concrete45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Concrete8
Zip codes with a Concrete address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Concrete — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.