La Conner, Washington.
Typical home $456,134 (-5.2% in a year). Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,035 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $25,065 -5%
- $481,199$456,134 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,806 -3%
- $469,939$456,134 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.
- La Conner$2,394
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in La Conner, WA fell 5.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Conner, Skagit County, Washington
La Conner is a town of 965 people in Skagit County. Half its households earn more than $80,385 a year and half less, against $89,263 across Skagit County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Skagit County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Skagit County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Conner is a very small town, home to fewer people than most places that have their own post office and main street. Residents are older than in most of the country, and household incomes run below the county's, though a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cool, with December the coldest month and daytime highs staying well above freezing, while August is the warmest, with comfortably warm afternoons.
Work. People in town work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many residents. Across Skagit County, some of the largest workplaces are Skagit Valley Hospital, Skagit Valley College and Janicki Industries. Commutes are on the longer side, and only a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Museum of Northwest Art is in or beside town, and the Lincoln Theatre and the Heritage Flight Museum are a short drive away. For time outdoors, Deception Pass State Park and Bay View State Park, both protected areas, are also a short drive away. Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve is a longer drive, for those who want a day out.
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- 438households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Skagit County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Skagit County had 54,140 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 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 75° and lows near 53°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Vernon Wnw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Skagit County
- Skagit Valley HospitalGeneral hospital1,861FTE
- Janicki IndustriesMolds, industrial, manufacturing1,060
- Skagit Valley CollegeUniversity or college804
- Mount Vernon School DistrictSchool district801FTE
- Paccar Technical CenterHeavy trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture556
- Island HospitalGeneral hospital545FTE
- Sedro-Woolley School DistrictSchool district541FTE
- Janicki IndustriesMolds, industrial, manufacturing475
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 128 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,112 people in all across the county; La Conner has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Conner’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 Skagit County and the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
La Conner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Conner$456,134
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 La Conner listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- La Conner26.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Conner35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Conner9
Zip codes with a La Conner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Conner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.