Midland, Washington.
Typical home $480,481 (-0.2% in a year), asking rent $2,016 . Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,349 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $941 -0%
- $481,422$480,481 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,249 +11%
- $432,232$480,481 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.
- Midland$2,522
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Midland, WA fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midland, Pierce County, Washington
Midland, in Pierce County, had 9,962 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $84,700 a year and half less, against $99,564 across Pierce County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Pierce County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midland is a community in Pierce County, Washington, with a younger population than many places that draw older homeowners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents are high compared with what many local households bring in. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renting is common too. Winters are cool and wet, with December the coldest month and highs staying well above freezing, and summers are mild and not hot, with August the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in transport, warehousing and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Midland are Safeway, SS Landscaping Services and P&A Civil, a mix of grocery, landscaping and construction work. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the usual commute is a long one, with only a small group working from home. Across Pierce County, jobs grew slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Closest to home, Cheney Stadium is a short drive away, as are the Museum of Glass and the old Fort Steilacoom, which is now a museum. The White River is also a short drive away for time by the water. For a bigger outing, Lake Tapps, a reservoir, and Lumen Field, a stadium, are a longer drive away.
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- 3,237households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pierce County had 337,071 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 57°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tacoma #1 weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Midland
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores125
- SS Landscaping Services121
- NSK25North Sky CommunicationsAll other specialty trade contractors69
- Specialized LandscapingTurf, artificial, installation62
- P&A CivilCommercial building construction general contractors44
- Pacific Integrated HandlingConveying equipment merchant wholesalers40
- Fence SpecialistsFence installation26
- Central Pierce Fire & RescueFire protection24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 531 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Midland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Pierce County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Midland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midland$480,481
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Midland 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.
- Midland39.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Midland27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Midland9
Zip codes with a Midland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.