North Bend, Washington.
Typical home $979,426 (-0.9% in a year), asking rent $2,958 (-0.1%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,891 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,365 -1%
- $988,791$979,426 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $147,197 +18%
- $832,230$979,426 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.
- North Bend$5,141
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in North Bend, WA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in North Bend, WA fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in North Bend runs $3,906/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,537 in Jan 2025.
That is $6,865 a month against $2,958 rent: a $5,141 mortgage payment, plus $675 property tax and $1,049 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — North Bend
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$6,865
- Renting$2,958
- Mortgage only$5,141
Property tax · $675/mo 0.83% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for King County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,049/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 North Bend, King County, Washington
North Bend is a city of 7,461 people in King County. Half its households earn more than $175,109 a year and half less, against $124,746 across King County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in King County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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. North Bend is a small city in King County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and households earn well above the county's typical income. Relatively few people live below the poverty line, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and wet, with only a little snow, and summers are mild and warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. In town, the largest workplaces include Nintendo of America, Terex's North Bend operation and Safeway. A good share of people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Snoqualmie River runs in or beside town, and Snoqualmie Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away. Twin Falls, another waterfall, is also a short drive away. For a city day out, Lake Washington and the Space Needle, a tourist attraction, are a longer drive.
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- 2,924households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 30%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. King County had 1,436,484 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°. About 4 inches of snow and 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Snoqualmie Falls weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in North Bend
- Nintendo of AmericaElectronic games merchant wholesalers223
- Terex - North BendConstruction machinery manufacturing120
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores114
- Quality Food CentersWarehouse clubs and supercenters106
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture33
- North BendMail and parcel delivery32
- Claffey'sBridge painting25
- Les SchwabAutomotive tire dealers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 664 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Bend’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 King County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
North Bend home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Bend$979,426
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 North Bend listings, and the typical home goes pending in 13 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.
- North Bend34.06%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- North Bend13
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- North Bend59
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- North Bend21
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a North Bend address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Bend — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.