Mukilteo, Washington.
Typical home $888,421 (-1.9% in a year), asking rent $2,355 (+2.4%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,539 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $17,330 -2%
- $905,751$888,421 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,478 +16%
- $763,943$888,421 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.
- Mukilteo$4,663
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Mukilteo, WA fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Mukilteo, WA rose 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Mukilteo runs $3,829/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,255 in Jan 2025.
That is $6,185 a month against $2,355 rent: a $4,663 mortgage payment, plus $571 property tax and $951 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Mukilteo
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$6,185
- Renting$2,355
- Mortgage only$4,663
Property tax · $571/mo 0.77% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Snohomish County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $951/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Mukilteo, Snohomish County, Washington
Mukilteo is a city of 21,538 people in Snohomish County. Half its households earn more than $132,861 a year and half less, against $111,246 across Snohomish County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Snohomish County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Mukilteo is a city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where incomes run well above the county's and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes cost a good deal to buy or rent, and winters are cool and damp rather than harsh, with mild summer afternoons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Within Mukilteo itself, some of the largest workplaces are Systima Technologies, which provides industrial engineering services, Synrad, which makes laser systems, and Pacific Seafood, a fresh seafood wholesaler. A fair number of people work from home, and the usual trip to work is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour and the Flying Heritage Collection, both museums, sit in or beside town and are a natural fit for anyone interested in aircraft. A longer drive brings you to the Space Needle, a well-known tourist attraction, and to Lake Washington.
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- 8,365households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Snohomish County had 299,062 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 73° and lows near 55°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Everett Snohomish Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mukilteo
- Systima TechnologiesIndustrial engineering services420
- Kaasco Inc. d.b.a. Kaas TailoredUpholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing182
- Pacific Seafood-SeattleFresh seafood merchant wholesalers157
- Anson IndustriesDrywall and insulation contractors148
- SynradLaser systems and equipment, medical, manufacturing115
- Quality Food CentersSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores102
- Creative Foam - RAMFoam plastics products manufacturing79
- Resource LabelFlexible packaging sheet materials made by coating or laminating purchased paper77
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,737 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
- Landslidesrelatively high in parts of MukilteoRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mukilteo’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 Snohomish County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Mukilteo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mukilteo$888,421
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mukilteo listings, and the typical home goes pending in 31 days — 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.
- Mukilteo30.51%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mukilteo31
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mukilteo97
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mukilteo29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mukilteo$882,133
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Mukilteo99.91%
Zip codes with a Mukilteo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mukilteo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.