Malaga, Washington.
Typical home $515,289 (+0.9% in a year). Wenatchee, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,378 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,591 +1%
- $510,698$515,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,465 +8%
- $475,825$515,289 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.
- Malaga$2,705
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Malaga, WA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Malaga, Chelan County, Washington
The Census does not count Malaga on its own, so the figures here are Chelan County's. Half the county's households earn more than $82,381 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 65% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Chelan County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chelan County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Malaga is a small community in Chelan County, Washington, where most homes across the county are lived in by their owners. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with frequent frost and snow, while summers are warm and dry. Rain and melted snow are modest through the year, so the seasons shape daily life more than wet weather does.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services also employ people across the county. Jobs across Chelan County have dropped slightly in recent years, and unemployment has edged up a little over the past year. Most people commute by car, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center is a museum a short drive away, a good place for learning about the valley's history. Squilchuck State Park is a protected area also a short drive away, suited to walking and time outdoors. For winter outings, Mission Ridge Ski Area is a ski area a longer drive away.
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- 31,520households
- 40.4median age
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Chelan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chelan County had 44,636 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 33° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 62°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wenatchee Pangborn Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chelan County
- Confluence HealthGeneral hospital2,288FTE
- Central Washington Health Services - Central CampusPhysicians' offices2,287
- Wenatchee School DistrictSchool district897FTE
- Confluence HealthPhysicians' offices858
- AgriMACSFarm management services750
- Stemilt GrowersFruit crop prep srvcs storage & packing678
- Custom OrchardsAgriculture658
- Columbia Orchard MgtApple orchards562
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 84 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,201 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chelan County, 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 Chelan County and the Wenatchee, WA metro.
Malaga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Malaga$515,289
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Malaga 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Malaga18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Malaga5
Zip codes with a Malaga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Malaga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.