Harrah, Washington.
Typical home $315,974 (+2.4% in a year). Yakima, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$892 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,361 +2%
- $308,613$315,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,650 +15%
- $274,324$315,974 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.
- Harrah$1,658
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Harrah, WA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harrah, Yakima County, Washington
Harrah is a town of 585 people in Yakima County. Half its households earn more than $73,958 a year and half less, against $70,656 across Yakima County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Yakima County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harrah is a very small town in Yakima County, with a younger population than many places and incomes a little above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many communities. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn hot, and the air is dry enough in terms of rain and melted snow that the place sees little precipitation over a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in farming, schools and hospitals, government and shops, and the daily trip to work is a moderate one. Across Yakima County, some of the largest workplaces are Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, the Yakima School District and Borton & Sons, which grows apples. Unemployment across the county has held steady compared with a year earlier, though the county has seen a slight dip in the number of jobs.
Things to do. A longer drive away, Fort Simcoe is a historic fort, and the Yakima Valley Museum gives a look at the region's past. For time outdoors, the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife, and the Yakima Area Arboretum is a botanical garden.
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- 215households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yakima County had 115,435 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 59°. About 20 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wapato weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yakima County
- Yakima Valley Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital2,153FTE
- Yakima School DistrictSchool district1,914FTE
- Borton & SonsApple orchards1,107
- Yakima CountyExec and leg ofcs combined1,037
- Generational CareHome care of elderly, non-medical894
- Pacific Ag ServicesApple orchards885
- Blue Cascade OrchardsApple orchards864
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage834
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 217 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,606 people in all across the county; Harrah 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Harrah’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 Yakima County and the Yakima, WA metro.
Harrah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harrah$315,974
- 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 Harrah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harrah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.