Eastsound, Washington.
Typical home $926,888 (+2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,772 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,006 +3%
- $903,883$926,888 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,794 +9%
- $847,095$926,888 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.
- Eastsound$4,865
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Eastsound, WA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eastsound, San Juan County, Washington
The Census does not count Eastsound on its own, so the figures here are San Juan County's. Half the county's households earn more than $84,800 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in San Juan County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Juan County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eastsound is a small community on Orcas Island in San Juan County, Washington, where the population is older than most of the country and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and wet rather than snowy, with more rain than snow, and summers stay mild as well. Home prices are high by national standards.
Work. Across the county, many people work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Jobs have grown slightly over the past year, and unemployment has held steady. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good share of residents work from home, so commutes tend to be short.
Things to do. Moran State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Jones Island Marine State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected marine area. Lime Kiln Point State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 9,015households
- 57.0median age
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What people in San Juan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Juan County had 6,158 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 69° and lows near 54°. About 6 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Olga Southeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Juan County
- San Juan Island School DistrictSchool district99FTE
- Peace Island Medical CenterCritical access hospital78FTE
- Orcas Island School DistrictSchool district59FTE
- Orcas Power & Light CooperativeDistribution of electric power48
- TAL Holdings45
- Lopez School DistrictSchool district40FTE
- San Juan Island EMSAmbulance services, air or ground37
- Town of Friday HarborExecutive and legislative office combinations37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 366 people in all. 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across San Juan County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 San Juan County.
Eastsound home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eastsound$926,888
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Eastsound 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.
- Eastsound21.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eastsound63
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eastsound12
Zip codes with a Eastsound address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eastsound — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.