Maple Falls, Washington.
Typical home $359,573 (+1.3% in a year). Bellingham, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,034 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,479 +1%
- $355,094$359,573 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,218 +17%
- $307,356$359,573 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.
- Maple Falls$1,887
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Maple Falls, WA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Maple Falls, Whatcom County, Washington
Maple Falls, in Whatcom County, had 291 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Whatcom County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Whatcom 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maple Falls is a very small community in Whatcom County, in the foothills of the North Cascades in Washington. With so few residents, it is the kind of place where people tend to know one another and where the surrounding woods and water shape daily life. The typical home is valued well below what many buyers in the wider region would expect to pay.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Whatcom County, some of the largest workplaces are St. Joseph Medical Center, Western Washington University and the Bellingham School District. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year ago, and the number of jobs there has grown only slightly.
Things to do. The Nooksack River is a short drive away, as is Silver Lake, a lake where residents can spend a day by the water. Nooksack Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away and is the best known of the area's many falls. Winters are cold, with some snow and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year, and summers are mild to warm.
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What people in Whatcom County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whatcom County had 93,720 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 50°. About 11 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clearbrook weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Whatcom County
- St. Joseph Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,356FTE
- Western Washington UniversityUniversity or college2,208
- Bellingham School DistrictSchool district1,325FTE
- BP Products North AmericaOil refineries893
- Lynden DoorDoor units, prehung, wood and covered wood, manufacturing629
- Ferndale School DistrictSchool district579FTE
- Whatcom Community CollegeUniversity or college497
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer422
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 194 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,187 people in all across the county; Maple Falls 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maple Falls’ 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 Whatcom County and the Bellingham, WA metro.
Maple Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maple Falls$359,573
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Maple Falls 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.
- Maple Falls13.68%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Maple Falls21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Maple Falls7
Zip codes with a Maple Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maple Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.