Everett, Washington.
Typical home $630,664 (-1.8% in a year), asking rent $1,919 (+2.2%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,778 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,762 -2%
- $642,425$630,664 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,819 +14%
- $550,845$630,664 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.
- Everett$3,310
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Everett, WA fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Everett, WA rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Everett runs $2,472/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,769 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,390 a month against $1,919 rent: a $3,310 mortgage payment, plus $405 property tax and $675 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Everett
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$4,390
- Renting$1,919
- Mortgage only$3,310
Property tax · $405/mo 0.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Snohomish County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $675/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 Everett, Snohomish County, Washington
Everett is a city of 110,629 people in Snohomish County. Half its households earn more than $83,512 a year and half less, against $111,246 across Snohomish County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Everett was 5.1% in August 2026, and Snohomish County had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Everett is a city in Snohomish County, home to a large population for the area. Residents are somewhat younger than the typical American, and incomes run well below the county's overall. Renters and owners are about evenly matched, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect near a big metro area. Winters are cool and damp, with December the coldest month, and summers are mild, with August the warmest.
Work. Many Everett residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also employing a good share. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Snohomish County Government, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett and the Everett School District. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour is a museum just a short drive away, and fits the area's long ties to aircraft building. The Snohomish River is another nearby natural feature, though a longer drive. Farther afield, visitors can reach the Space Needle, one of the best known tourist attractions in the region, and the Seattle Art Museum, both a longer drive away.
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- 44,647households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Snohomish County had 299,062 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 55°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Everett weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Everett
- Snohomish County GovernmentGeneral public administration3,390
- Prov Regl MED Center EverettGeneral hospital2,816FTE
- Everett School DistrictSchool district2,083FTE
- Mukilteo School DistrictSchool district1,694FTE
- City of EverettAuditor's offices, government1,198
- Everett Community CollegeUniversity or college839
- Community TransitMixed mode transit systems688
- Volunteers of America Western WashingtonIndividual and family social services, multi-purpose627
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 123 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,779 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Everett’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 Snohomish County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Everett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Everett$630,664
- 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 Everett listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 days — 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.
- Everett33.25%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Everett18
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Everett428
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Everett135
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Everett$608,822
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Everett99.82%
Zip codes with a Everett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Everett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Everett
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98208 | Everett | 60,915 | $2,000 | $728,590 |
| 98204 | Everett | 45,130 | $1,840 | $549,790 |
| 98203 | Everett | 35,517 | $2,187 | $617,950 |
| 98201 | Everett | 31,895 | $1,811 | $533,518 |
| 98206 | — | — | — | $552,516 |