Mica, Washington.
Typical home $707,950 (+0.9% in a year). Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,101 (+130%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,460 +1%
- $701,490$707,950 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,086 +12%
- $632,864$707,950 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.
- Mica$3,716
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Mica, WA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mica, Spokane County, Washington
The Census does not count Mica on its own, so the figures here are Spokane County's. Half the county's households earn more than $78,582 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Spokane County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Spokane County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mica is a community in Spokane County in eastern Washington. Winters are cold, with the coldest months bringing hard frosts and freezing days, while summers are warm and dry enough for outdoor life. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, so the seasons are clearly marked. Across Spokane County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across the county has eased somewhat over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up. Across the county, incomes are a mix, and a noticeable share of households live close to the poverty line.
Things to do. The Spokane River is a short drive away, a river for walks and watching the water. Liberty Lake Regional Park is also a short drive away and is a park for open-air time. Manito Park and Botanical Gardens, a longer drive away, is a botanical garden with plantings to walk among.
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- 218,395households
- 38.5median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Spokane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spokane County had 243,704 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 56°. About 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spokane Felts Field weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Spokane County
- Spokane School DistrictSchool district3,642FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,993
- City of SpokaneWaste treatment facilities, nonhazardous2,553
- Gonzaga UniversityUniversity or college1,749
- Kalispel Tribal Economic AuthorityCasino hotels1,628
- Central Valley School DistrictSchool district1,618FTE
- Eastern Washington UniversityUniversity or college1,449
- Deaconess Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,354FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 455 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 67,999 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Spokane County, 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 Spokane County and the Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA metro.
Mica home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mica$707,950
- 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 Mica address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mica — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.