Gold Bar, Washington.
Typical home $467,246 (-0.2% in a year). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,354 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $758 -0%
- $468,004$467,246 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,084 +18%
- $396,161$467,246 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.
- Gold Bar$2,452
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Gold Bar, WA fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gold Bar, Snohomish County, Washington
Gold Bar is a city of 2,403 people in Snohomish County. Half its households earn more than $100,729 a year and half less, against $111,246 across Snohomish County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Snohomish County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gold Bar is a small city in the forested foothills of the Cascades, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a higher share than is usual across the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit well above what many older homeowners might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold and damp, summers are mild to warm, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Snohomish County, some of the largest workplaces are Snohomish County Government, Amazon's warehousing operations and the Northshore School District. Commutes are long compared with most places, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Wallace Falls State Park is a protected area in or beside town, so a walk among the trees and waterfalls needs no real travel. Sunset Falls and Eagle Falls are both waterfalls a short drive away. For a bigger outing, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 825households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 47 mintypical commute
- 9%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 46° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 78° and lows near 51°. About 68 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Startup East weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Snohomish County
- Snohomish County GovernmentGeneral public administration3,390
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,821
- Prov Regl MED Center EverettGeneral hospital2,816FTE
- Northshore School DistrictSchool district2,451FTE
- Edmonds School DistrictSchool district2,158FTE
- Everett School DistrictSchool district2,083FTE
- Mukilteo School DistrictSchool district1,694FTE
- City of EverettAuditor's offices, government1,198
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 522 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 69,999 people in all across the county; Gold Bar 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
- LandslidesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gold Bar’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Snohomish County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Gold Bar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gold Bar$467,246
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Gold Bar 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.
- Gold Bar24.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gold Bar33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gold Bar8
Zip codes with a Gold Bar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gold Bar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Gold Bar
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98251 | Gold Bar | 4,907 | — | $473,583 |
| 98224 | Baring | 190 | — | $482,435 |