Naches, Washington.
Typical home $318,577 (+1.5% in a year). Yakima, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$848 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,758 +2%
- $313,819$318,577 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,173 +13%
- $281,404$318,577 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.
- Naches$1,672
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Naches, WA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Naches, Yakima County, Washington
Naches is a town of 1,084 people in Yakima County. Half its households earn more than $54,286 a year and half less, against $70,656 across Yakima County. Unemployment in Yakima County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Naches is a small town in Yakima County, home to a close-knit community. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical commute is a short one by most standards. Winters are cold and summers are hot and dry, with very little rain or snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, while others work in farming, forestry and mining, transport and warehouses, or the building trades. The largest workplaces in town include Sagemoor Group Management Services, which runs apple orchards, along with the Naches Valley School District and the Forest Service. Unemployment across Yakima County is the same as it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Tieton River and the Wenas Wildlife Area are both a short drive away, for time by the water or out on protected land. A longer drive brings you to Rimrock Lake, a reservoir in the mountains, and to the Yakima Electric Railway Museum, which looks back at the region's transit history.
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- 402households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yakima County had 115,435 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 54°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Selah Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Naches
- Sagemoor Group Management ServicesApple orchards720
- Naches Valley School DistrictSchool district158FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 720 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Naches’ 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 Yakima County and the Yakima, WA metro.
Naches home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Naches$318,577
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Naches 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.
- Naches18.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Naches34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Naches10
Zip codes with a Naches address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Naches — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.