Fircrest, Washington.
Typical home $612,327 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,998 . Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,694 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,886 +1%
- $608,440$612,327 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,528 +12%
- $545,799$612,327 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.
- Fircrest$3,214
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Fircrest, WA rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fircrest, Pierce County, Washington
Fircrest is a city of 7,156 people in Pierce County. Half its households earn more than $113,926 a year and half less, against $99,564 across Pierce County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Pierce County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fircrest is a small city with an older population than many places, and household incomes here run above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home and the typical rent are both on the pricey side. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and relatively few households live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Pierce County, some of the largest workplaces are MultiCare Health System, the Puyallup School District and the City of Tacoma. Commutes are fairly ordinary in length, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Cheney Stadium, a ballpark, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are the Museum of Glass, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and Fort Steilacoom, which is a museum. Winters here are cool and damp, summers are mild to warm, and rain falls through much of the year.
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- 2,987households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pierce County had 337,071 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 54°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tacoma Narrows Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pierce County
- City of TacomaGovernment base facilities operation support services3,921
- Tacoma General Allenmore HospitalGeneral hospital2,897FTE
- WSH2,623
- MultiCare Health SystemPhysicians, mental health, offices e.g., centers, clinics2,526
- Puyallup School DistrictSchool district2,443FTE
- MultiCare Health SystemOffices of physicians2,402
- Bethel School DistrictSchool district2,281FTE
- St Joseph Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,232FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 680 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 98,490 people in all across the county; Fircrest has none of its own. 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fircrest’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 Pierce County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Fircrest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fircrest$612,327
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fircrest 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.
- Fircrest31.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fircrest26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fircrest9
Zip codes with a Fircrest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fircrest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.