Lyman, Washington.
Typical home $451,764 (+0.9% in a year). Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,301 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,152 +1%
- $447,612$451,764 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,525 +16%
- $390,240$451,764 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.
- Lyman$2,371
- 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 Lyman, WA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyman, Skagit County, Washington
Lyman is a town of 423 people in Skagit County. 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 residents work in construction, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lyman is a very small town in Skagit County, Washington, with a population that makes it feel more like a village than a town. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across much of the country, and the typical home is worth more than many would expect for a place of its size. Winters are cold and damp, with a little snow each year, and summers are mild and pleasant, the warmest days only comfortably warm.
Work. Many residents work in the building trades, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. Across Skagit County, some of the largest workplaces are Skagit Valley Hospital, Janicki Industries and Skagit Valley College. The typical commute is fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home, so a good share of the day for many residents is spent on the road.
Things to do. O'Toole Creek is a creek a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Shannon, a reservoir, and to the Stillaguamish River, both good for quiet time by the water. Sulphide Creek Falls, a waterfall, is also a longer drive away, and is worth the trip for anyone who enjoys a walk toward falling water.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 45° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 75° and lows near 53°. About 6 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sedro-woolley weather station, 8 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; Lyman has none 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
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lyman’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 Skagit County and the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
Lyman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lyman$451,764
- 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 Lyman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lyman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.