Ford, Washington.
Typical home $282,631 (+1.7% in a year). Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$861 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,636 +2%
- $277,995$282,631 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,964 +18%
- $238,666$282,631 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.
- Ford$1,483
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Ford, WA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ford, Stevens County, Washington
The Census does not count Ford on its own, so the figures here are Stevens County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,327 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Stevens County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stevens County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ford is a small town in Stevens County, in the northeastern part of Washington State. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the median age runs older than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm and dry-leaning, with the coldest weather in December and the warmest in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs dipped slightly last year. Many people still commute, and a smaller share work from home.
Things to do. Riverside State Park is a protected area a longer drive away and is among the more widely visited spots in the region. Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, also a protected area, lies a longer drive away and offers wide water and open land. Loon Lake, a lake a longer drive away, is another option for a day outdoors.
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- 19,374households
- 46.9median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Stevens County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stevens County had 11,227 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 32° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 52°. About 48 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spokane Weather Office weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stevens County
- Stevens CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations422
- Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Northeast RegionLand management program administration331
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters296
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing259
- Providence Mount Carmel HospitalCritical access hospital223FTE
- Colville School DistrictSchool district206FTE
- Hewes Marine CompanyBoats manufacturing155
- Colmac Coil ManufacturingAir-conditioners, unit, manufacturing154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,010 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Stevens County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Stevens County and the Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA metro.
Ford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ford$282,631
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Ford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.