Mesa, Washington.
Typical home $562,922 (+3.1% in a year). Kennewick-Richland, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,557 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,744 +3%
- $546,178$562,922 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,611 +17%
- $479,311$562,922 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.
- Mesa$2,955
- 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 Mesa, WA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mesa, Franklin County, Washington
Mesa is a city of 385 people in Franklin County. Unemployment in Franklin County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mesa is a very small city in Franklin County, Washington, with a population that makes it feel more like a village than a town. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across the county are a little below that of many other parts of the state. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the climate is dry, with only a modest amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, then shops and professional and business services. Across Franklin County, the largest workplaces include Pasco School District, Amazon and Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up, with a typical commute that is a short drive rather than a long haul.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Snake River and the Hanford Reach, both rivers, are a longer drive away. Also a longer drive off is Juniper Dunes Wilderness, a protected area of open sand dunes and desert country. Together they give a sense of the wide, dry landscape of the Columbia Basin around Mesa.
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- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 37,938 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 55°. About 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Connell West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Pasco School DistrictSchool district2,052FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,278
- Coyote Ridge Corrections CenterCorrectional institutions779
- Pasco ProcessingFrozen fruit and vegetable processing696
- Columbia Basin CollegeUniversity or college668
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing646
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters455
- Resers Fine FoodsPrepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale404
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 111 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,802 people in all across the county; Mesa has two of its own. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of MesaRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mesa’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 Franklin County and the Kennewick-Richland, WA metro.
Mesa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mesa$562,922
- 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.
Zip codes with a Mesa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mesa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.