Pacific, Washington.
Typical home $540,173 (-0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,926 . Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,538 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,414 -1%
- $544,587$540,173 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,480 +14%
- $474,693$540,173 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$2,835
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Pacific, WA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pacific, King County, Washington
Pacific is a city of 7,235 people in King County. Half its households earn more than $115,625 a year and half less, against $124,746 across King County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% 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 schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 is a small city in King County, with homes lived in by their owners more often than not, though renters make up a real part of the town too. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good number of people live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and damp, and summers stay mild, so the town is rarely hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in professional and business services. Within Pacific itself, some of the biggest workplaces are freight and delivery firms such as Cheema Freightlines and UPS, along with Gordon Truck Centers. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Surprise Lake and Wild Waves Theme Park, an amusement park, are in or beside town. A short drive away are Lake Tapps, a reservoir, and the White River. For a longer outing by car, the Space Needle, a well-known tourist attraction, and the Museum of Pop Culture are both farther off.
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- 2,302households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 11%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 47° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 57°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tacoma #1 weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pacific
- Cheema FreightlinesMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload530
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services314
- Gordon Truck CentersTruck parts, new, merchant wholesalers144
- CRH Americas MaterialAsphalt and concrete mixtures merchant wholesalers119
- Evergreen Concrete CuttingConcrete breaking and cutting for demolition110
- Mastercraft ElectricElectrical contractors106
- Precision Iron WorksStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing88
- Green EffectsLandscaping services85
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,057 people in all. 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
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pacific’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 King County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Pacific home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pacific$540,173
- 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.
- Pacific15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pacific6
Zip codes with a Pacific address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pacific — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.