Manson, Washington.
Typical home $718,850 (-2.2% in a year). Wenatchee, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,962 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,426 -2%
- $735,276$718,850 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,144 +7%
- $671,707$718,850 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.
- Manson$3,773
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 51 years.
Typical home values in Manson, WA fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manson, Chelan County, Washington
Manson, in Chelan County, had 1,523 people in the 2020 census. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manson is a small community on the north shore of Lake Chelan, in Chelan County. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the county, and winters are cold and snowy, while summers turn properly warm. The town sits in dry country, with rain and melted snow adding up to modest amounts over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across Chelan County, the biggest employers include Confluence Health, the Wenatchee School District and Stemilt Growers. Job numbers across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Lake Chelan State Park is in or beside town, and Lake Chelan itself, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Echo Valley Ski Area is also a short drive away for winter days on the snow. The Methow River, a longer drive off, offers another river to explore.
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- 555households
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 January, with highs near 34° and lows near 22°; warmest in August, with highs near 87° and lows near 58°. About 20 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chelan weather station, 8 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 across the county; Manson has none of its own. 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
- WildfireVery high
- LightningVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Manson’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 Chelan County and the Wenatchee, WA metro.
Manson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manson$718,850
- 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 6 Manson 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.
- Manson18.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Manson49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Manson5
Zip codes with a Manson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.