Kingston, Washington.
Typical home $659,287 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $2,667 . Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,808 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,256 +0%
- $657,030$659,287 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,824 +9%
- $602,462$659,287 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.
- Kingston$3,460
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Kingston, WA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Kingston, in Kitsap County, had 2,515 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Kitsap County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kitsap County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingston is a small community in Kitsap County, with a population that keeps it on a modest, local scale. Household incomes here are likely to sit in a comfortable range, and homes are valued well above what many parts of the country would expect. A four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults, and a good number of residents work from home. Winters are cool and damp, with December the coldest month, while August brings mild, pleasant warmth, and rain and melted snow arrive across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in manufacturing. Across Kitsap County, some of the largest workplaces are Harrison Medical Center, Central Kitsap School District and Olympic College. Unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. For a day out, Seattle is a longer drive away and offers a good deal to see. The Space Needle is the best known of its tourist attractions, and Lake Washington is a large lake for time by the water. The Museum of Pop Culture is a museum for those who like an indoor outing.
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- 1,051households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Kitsap County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kitsap County had 94,213 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 73° and lows near 55°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Everett Snohomish Airport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kitsap County
- Harrison Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,610FTE
- Central Kitsap School DistrictSchool district1,284FTE
- South Kitsap School DistrictSchool district1,114FTE
- Olympic CollegeUniversity or college750
- North Kitsap School DistrictSchool district637FTE
- Bremerton School DistrictSchool district578FTE
- Lockheed Martin Corporation SWFPC Campus (1575)422
- Noo-Kayet DevelopmentCasino hotels420
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 145 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,997 people in all across the county; Kingston has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat 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 in Kingston’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 Kitsap County and the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA metro.
Kingston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingston$659,287
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kingston 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.
- Kingston28.61%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kingston51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kingston10
Zip codes with a Kingston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Kingston
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98346 | Kingston | 9,920 | $2,667 | $656,532 |
| 98342 | Indianola | 1,338 | — | $701,762 |