Pacific Beach, Washington.
Typical home $736,732 (-1.8% in a year). Aberdeen, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,031 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,612 -2%
- $750,344$736,732 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,942 +8%
- $683,790$736,732 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.
- Pacific Beach$3,867
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 46 years.
Typical home values in Pacific Beach, WA fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pacific Beach, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Pacific Beach, in Grays Harbor County, had 280 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Grays Harbor County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grays Harbor County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pacific Beach is a very small community on the Washington coast, home to far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what the county's typical household income would comfortably reach. Winters are cool rather than harsh, with almost no snow, and summers stay mild. Rain and melted snow add up to a great deal over the year, far more than in most of the country.
Work. Across Grays Harbor County, jobs are slightly fewer than a year earlier, and unemployment is a little lower than it was at this time last year. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in government. Some of the county's largest workplaces are Grays Harbor Community Hospital, Aberdeen School District and Quinault Beach Resort & Casino.
Things to do. Pacific Beach State Park is a protected area in or beside town, with the ocean close by. Griffiths-Priday Ocean State Park, another protected area, and the Moclips River are both a short drive away. Lake Quinault is a longer drive away for those who want a day by a lake.
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What people in Grays Harbor County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grays Harbor County had 23,790 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 70° and lows near 50°. About 1 inches of snow and 116 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Humptulips Salmon Hatchery weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grays Harbor County
- Stafford Creek Corrections CenterCorrectional institutions638
- Grays Harbor Community HospitalGeneral hospital396FTE
- Aberdeen School DistrictSchool district388FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- Quinault Beach Resort & CasinoHotels, resort, with casinos322
- Rognlin'sCommercial building construction general contractors286
- Summit Pacific Medical CenterCritical access hospital265FTE
- Grays Harbor CollegeUniversity or college257
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,585 people in all across the county; Pacific Beach 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 colleges from IPEDS (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
- TsunamisRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pacific Beach’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 Grays Harbor County and the Aberdeen, WA metro.
Pacific Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pacific Beach$736,732
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Pacific Beach listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Pacific Beach14.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pacific Beach68
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pacific Beach8
Zip codes with a Pacific Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pacific Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.