Methow, Washington.
Typical home $334,149 (-4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$734 (+72%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $17,387 -5%
- $351,536$334,149 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,103 -1%
- $338,252$334,149 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.
- Methow$1,754
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Methow, WA fell 4.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Methow, Okanogan County, Washington
Methow, in Okanogan County, had 92 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Okanogan County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Okanogan County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Methow is a small community in Okanogan County, in north-central Washington. Its winters are colder than most of the country, and its summers are warm and dry enough to make the outdoors a large part of daily life. Neighbors in a town this size tend to know one another well.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, or in building trades. Others work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in local shops. Jobs in the wider county have been growing over the past year.
Things to do. The Methow River is a short drive away and offers a quiet place to walk or sit by the water. Alta Lake State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area for outdoor time. Lake Chelan, a reservoir a longer drive away, is a larger place for boating and wider views.
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What people in Okanogan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Okanogan County had 17,526 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 32° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 57°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Methow South weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Okanogan County
- Omak School DistrictSchool district392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters318
- Stemilt AG ServicesNon citrus fruit farming274
- Honeybear GrowersBerries, fresh, merchant wholesalers216
- Mid-valley HospitalCritical access hospital188FTE
- Tonasket School DistrictSchool district142FTE
- Okanogan School DistrictSchool district140FTE
- Brewster School DistrictSchool district130FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,872 people in all across the county; Methow has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Methow’s 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 Okanogan County.
Methow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Methow$334,149
- 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 Methow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Methow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.