Orient, Washington.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,588 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
Living in Orient, Ferry County, Washington
Orient, in Ferry County, had 75 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ferry County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ferry County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orient is a small community in Ferry County, in the northeastern part of Washington State, where most residents are older. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with August the warmest. Rain and melted snow arrive in modest amounts over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in government. Others work in farming, forestry and mining, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Jobs across the county dipped slightly last year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Pierre Lake and Lamar Lake are both a short drive away, so they are the easiest outings from town. Kettle Falls, a waterfall, and Colville National Forest, a protected area, are a longer drive away but well worth the trip.
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What people in Ferry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ferry County had 1,696 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 20°; warmest in August, with highs near 86° and lows near 50°. About 47 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Northport weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ferry County
- Ferry County Public Hospital District #1 (DBA Ferry County Memorial Hospital)General medical and surgical hospitals132
- Ferry County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital97FTE
- Columbia Cedar - Kettle FallsSawmills57
- Republic School DistrictSchool district49FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture44
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture40
- Inchelium School DistrictSchool district40FTE
- Curlew School DistrictSchool district35FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 211 people in all across the county; Orient has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Orient’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 Ferry County.
Orient home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orient7
Zip codes with a Orient address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orient — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.