Lyle, Washington.
Typical home $433,496 (+2.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,279 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,103 +2%
- $423,393$433,496 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,915 +11%
- $391,581$433,496 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.
- Lyle$2,275
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Lyle, WA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyle, Klickitat County, Washington
Lyle, in Klickitat County, had 518 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Klickitat County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Klickitat County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lyle is a very small community on the Washington side of the Columbia River, in Klickitat County. Winters are cold and bring some snow, and summers get hot, with a fairly dry year overall. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would suggest, so housing can stretch a household's budget.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing, and farming and forestry. Across Klickitat County, the largest workplaces include Insitu, an aircraft manufacturer, and the critical access hospitals Klickitat Valley Health and Skyline Hospital. Jobs across the county were fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment there has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Mayer State Park and Memaloose State Park are both in or beside town, giving easy access to the river and open ground. A short drive away are Old St. Peter's Landmark and the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, both museums, and Fifteenmile Creek for time by the water. For a longer outing, Maryhill Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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What people in Klickitat County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Klickitat County had 7,092 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 57°. About 6 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the The Dalles weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Klickitat County
- InsituAircraft manufacturing460
- Goldendale School DistrictSchool district185FTE
- Klickitat Valley HealthCritical access hospital179FTE
- Skyline HospitalCritical access hospital111FTE
- White Salmon Valley School DistrictSchool district110FTE
- Innovative Compsite EngineeringPlate, laminated plastics, manufacturing76
- Klickitat PUD Goldendale OfficeElectric power distribution systems65
- WinemakersGrape farming without making wine52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,392 people in all across the county; Lyle has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lyle’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 Klickitat County.
Lyle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lyle$433,496
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lyle 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.
- Lyle23.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lyle23
Zip codes with a Lyle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lyle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lyle
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98635 | Lyle | 1,721 | — | $504,505 |
| 98617 | Dallesport | 1,380 | — | $430,656 |
| 98673 | Wishram | 411 | — | $189,593 |