Orondo, Washington.
Typical home $694,577 (-0.5% in a year). Wenatchee, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,103 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,789 -1%
- $698,367$694,577 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $113,873 +20%
- $580,704$694,577 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.
- Orondo$3,646
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Orondo, WA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orondo, Douglas County, Washington
The Census does not count Orondo on its own, so the figures here are Douglas County's. Half the county's households earn more than $80,363 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Douglas County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Douglas County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orondo sits in Douglas County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with nights well below freezing, and summers are warm and dry, with fairly little rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining. Shops and the building trades also employ people here. Few residents work from home, so most people travel to a workplace, and the county has seen a slight drop in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Chelan, a reservoir a short drive away, is a good place for water-based outings. Lake Entiat, another reservoir nearby, and the Chelan River, also a short drive off, offer more places to spend time on the water. For winter visitors, Badger Mountain Ski Area is a short drive away.
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- 15,923households
- 38.9median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Douglas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 12,413 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 53°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waterville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- Eastmont School DistrictSchool district684FTE
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer302
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Stemilt AG ServicesNon citrus fruit farming156
- H2 PrecastConcrete products, precast, manufacturing155
- Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas CountyElectric power distribution systems140
- Northern Fruit Company135
- Confluence HealthPhysicians' offices127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,921 people in all. School districts come 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Douglas County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Douglas County and the Wenatchee, WA metro.
Orondo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orondo$694,577
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orondo19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Orondo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orondo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.