McCleary, Washington.
Typical home $390,152 (+0.8% in a year). Aberdeen, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,062 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,058 +1%
- $387,094$390,152 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,047 +5%
- $370,105$390,152 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.
- McCleary$2,048
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 66 years.
Typical home values in McCleary, WA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McCleary, Grays Harbor County, Washington
McCleary is a city of 1,997 people in Grays Harbor County. Half its households earn more than $77,813 a year and half less, against $64,414 across Grays Harbor County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Grays Harbor County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McCleary is a small city in Grays Harbor County, home to a close-knit community where most households own the place they live in. Incomes here run higher than across the county as a whole, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many parts of the country. Winters are cool and damp, summers mild to warm, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, government, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in McCleary are Simpson Door Company, a maker of wooden doors, the psychiatric and substance abuse hospital Mark Reed, and the McCleary School District. A typical commute is fairly long, and a notable number of people work from home. Across Grays Harbor County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Capitol State Forest is a protected area a short drive away, and Schafer State Park, also a short drive off, is another place to spend time outdoors. Summit Lake, a reservoir, is likewise a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Olympic Flight Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 908households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grays Harbor County had 23,790 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 52°. About 72 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elma weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McCleary
- Simpson Door Company (MCD)Door units, prehung, wood and covered wood, manufacturing207
- Mark Reed ETPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals39
- McCleary School DistrictSchool district39FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 246 people in all. School districts come 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McCleary’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Grays Harbor County and the Aberdeen, WA metro.
McCleary home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McCleary$390,152
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 McCleary 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.
- McCleary21.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- McCleary19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a McCleary address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McCleary — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.