Forks, Washington.
Typical home $330,520 (-0.3% in a year). Port Angeles, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$955 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $919 -0%
- $331,438$330,520 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,528 +17%
- $281,991$330,520 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.
- Forks$1,735
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Forks, WA fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forks, Jefferson County, Washington
Forks is a city of 3,335 people in Jefferson County. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forks is a small city on the western side of the Olympic Peninsula, with the Calawah River running in or beside town. Winters are cold and summers are mild, and the town gets a great deal of rain and melted snow across the year, with only a little snow of its own. Home values here sit well below the county's income level would suggest for many places, so the town reads as a modest, lived-in community rather than a resort.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Some of the largest workplaces in Forks are the Quillayute Valley School District, Forks Community Hospital and the Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Olympic Region. A good number of people work from home. Unemployment across Jefferson County is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Bogachiel State Park and the Dickey River are both a short drive away, the first a protected area for walking and camping and the second a river to visit. The Calawah River is in or beside town. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches the Hoh Rainforest, a protected area of old, mossy forest, and Rialto Beach, a beach on the coast.
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- 1,441households
- 12%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 9,204 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 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 74° and lows near 50°. About 8 inches of snow and 120 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Forks East weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forks
- Quillayute Valley School DistrictSchool district259FTE
- Forks Community HospitalCritical access hospital181FTE
- Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Olympic RegionLand management program administration180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 344 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- TsunamisRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forks’ 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 Jefferson County and the Port Angeles, WA metro.
Forks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forks$330,520
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Forks 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Forks17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Forks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.