Kenmore, Washington.
Typical home $963,292 (-4.3% in a year), asking rent $2,623 (+1.7%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,775 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $42,831 -4%
- $1,006,123$963,292 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $131,294 +16%
- $831,998$963,292 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.
- Kenmore$5,056
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Kenmore, WA fell 4.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Kenmore, WA rose 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Kenmore runs $4,128/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,782 in Jan 2025.
That is $6,751 a month against $2,623 rent: a $5,056 mortgage payment, plus $664 property tax and $1,031 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Kenmore
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$6,751
- Renting$2,623
- Mortgage only$5,056
Property tax · $664/mo 0.83% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for King County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,031/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Kenmore, King County, Washington
Kenmore is a city of 23,914 people in King County. Half its households earn more than $139,764 a year and half less, against $124,746 across King County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in King County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer 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. Kenmore is a city at the north end of Lake Washington, where the Sammamish River runs in or beside town. Household incomes here are higher than across King County, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A large majority of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is expensive to buy, with rents to match.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in manufacturing. Within Kenmore itself, some of the largest workplaces are Safeway, Northshore Utility District and CalPortland's ready-mix concrete operation. Many people work from home, and the commute for those who travel to a job is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Sammamish River runs in or beside town, and Lake Washington is a short drive away. Also a short drive off are the Museum of Pop Culture and the Henry Art Gallery. Winters here are cool and damp, with only a little snow, and summers are warm.
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- 9,396households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 33%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. King County had 1,436,484 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 57°. About 4 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seattle Sand Pt Wsfo weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kenmore
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores112
- Northshore Utility DistrictWater distribution56
- CalPortland (Kenmore Ready Mix)Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 198 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kenmore’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 King County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Kenmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kenmore$963,292
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kenmore listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Kenmore34.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kenmore117
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kenmore30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Kenmore$875,277
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Kenmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kenmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.