Marblemount, Washington.
Typical home $193,267 (-5.8% in a year). Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$496 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,944 -6%
- $205,211$193,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,049 +3%
- $187,218$193,267 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.
- Marblemount$1,014
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Marblemount, WA fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Marblemount, in Skagit County, had 286 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $100,458 a year and half less, against $89,263 across Skagit County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. 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 people in Skagit 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marblemount is a very small community, with the Cascade River running in or beside town. Nearly every home is lived in by its owner, and household incomes run higher than across Skagit County. Typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and the year brings a great deal of rain and melted snow, while summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Skagit County, the largest workplaces include Skagit Valley Hospital, Skagit Valley College and the Mount Vernon School District. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and unemployment in the county is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. The Cascade River runs in or beside town. A longer drive away is North Cascades National Park, the best known place nearby. Also a longer drive away is Ross Lake National Recreation Area, a protected area, and Diablo Lake, a reservoir.
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- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Skagit County 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 41° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 78° and lows near 52°. About 83 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Darrington Nne weather station, under a mile 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; Marblemount has one 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marblemount’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.
Marblemount home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marblemount$193,267
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marblemount10
Zip codes with a Marblemount address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marblemount — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.