Mossyrock, Washington.
Typical home $437,617 (+0.8% in a year). Centralia, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,331 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,316 +1%
- $434,301$437,617 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,612 +17%
- $375,005$437,617 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.
- Mossyrock$2,297
- 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 Mossyrock, WA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mossyrock, Lewis County, Washington
Mossyrock is a city of 768 people in Lewis County. Unemployment in Lewis County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mossyrock is a very small city in Lewis County, Washington, beside Lake Mayfield. Homes here are worth more than you might expect for a place this size, while household incomes across Lewis County sit below the Washington average. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and some people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Lewis County, some of the largest workplaces are Providence Centralia Hospital, Centralia College and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Lake Mayfield, a reservoir, is in or beside town, and Ike Kinswa State Park and Newaukum Lake are a short drive away. Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Winters are cool and damp with little snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain across the year.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 10%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 27,423 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 51°. About 3 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mayfield Pwr Plt weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Providence Centralia HospitalGeneral hospital623FTE
- Lewis CountyExec and leg ofcs combined570
- Great Wolf Lodge - Grand MoundHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities518
- United Natural FoodsGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers513
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters494
- Centralia CollegeUniversity or college437
- Centralia School DistrictSchool district408FTE
- Department of Children, Youth & FamiliesCorrectional institutions397
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,507 people in all across the county; Mossyrock has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mossyrock’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 Lewis County and the Centralia, WA metro.
Mossyrock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mossyrock$437,617
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mossyrock 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.
- Mossyrock30.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mossyrock26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mossyrock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mossyrock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.