Bothell, Washington.
Typical home $979,439 (-5.6% in a year), asking rent $2,523 (+2.0%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,875 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $58,024 -6%
- $1,037,464$979,439 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $128,628 +15%
- $850,811$979,439 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.
- Bothell$5,141
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Bothell, WA fell 5.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Bothell, WA rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Bothell runs $4,295/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $5,081 in Jan 2025.
That is $6,818 a month against $2,523 rent: a $5,141 mortgage payment, plus $629 property tax and $1,049 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Bothell
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$6,818
- Renting$2,523
- Mortgage only$5,141
Property tax · $629/mo 0.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Snohomish County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,049/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Bothell, Snohomish County, Washington
Bothell is a city of 48,161 people in Snohomish County. Half its households earn more than $140,427 a year and half less, against $111,246 across Snohomish County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Bothell was 4.7% in August 2026, and Snohomish County had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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. Bothell is a city on the northern edge of the Seattle area, with a mix of owners and renters in which most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well above the county's, relatively few people live below the poverty line, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are costly to buy and to rent, and the population skews a little younger than the typical American town.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Bothell are the Northshore School District, Philips North America and the University of Washington-Bothell Campus. Commutes are moderate, and many people work from home, a good deal more than in most places.
Things to do. The Sammamish River runs in or beside town, and the Snohomish River is a short drive away. Husky Stadium, a college football venue, is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, the Space Needle, the best known tourist attraction in the area, and the Museum of Pop Culture are a longer drive away. Winters are cool and wet with little snow, and summers are mild to warm.
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- 19,448households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 33%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Snohomish County had 299,062 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 57°. About 4 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seattle Sand Pt Wsfo weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bothell
- Northshore School DistrictSchool district2,451FTE
- Philips North AmericaMedical ultrasound equipment manufacturing1,155
- Puget Sound EnergyElectric power generation, hydroelectric775
- University of Washington-Bothell CampusUniversity or college732
- FUJIFILM SonositeArc lamp units, electrotherapeutic, manufacturing647
- Bristol Myers Squibb Cell Therapy OperationsGene therapy preparations manufacturing582
- Romac Industries, Inc. Canyon ParkUnions, pipe, metal, manufacturing392
- City of BothellCity and town councils387
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,284 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bothell’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 Snohomish County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Bothell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bothell$979,439
- 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 2 Bothell listings, and the typical home goes pending in 35 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Bothell43.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bothell35
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bothell465
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bothell123
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bothell$952,181
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bothell98.32%
Zip codes with a Bothell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bothell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bothell
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98012 | Bothell | 77,041 | $2,609 | $928,453 |
| 98021 | Bothell | 35,631 | $3,134 | $1,059,943 |
| 98011 | Bothell | 28,963 | $2,221 | $976,799 |