Packwood, Washington.
Typical home $451,597 (+2.8% in a year). Centralia, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,603 (+209%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,131 +3%
- $439,466$451,597 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $118,547 +36%
- $333,050$451,597 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.
- Packwood$2,370
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Packwood, WA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Packwood, Lewis County, Washington
Packwood, in Lewis County, had 319 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lewis County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Packwood is a very small community, home to far fewer people than most towns, and its residents are considerably older than the typical American. Homes here cost more than one might expect for a place this size, and the county's household incomes are modest by comparison. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Lewis County, the largest workplaces include Providence Centralia Hospital, Lewis County government and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, even as the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Packwood Lake and the Tatoosh Wilderness are both a short drive away, one a lake and the other a protected area, and the Cowlitz River is close by as well. Mount Rainier National Park is a longer drive away, and its waterfalls, including Comet Falls and Narada Falls, are within reach for a day out.
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What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 27,423 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 52°. About 32 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Packwood weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Providence Centralia HospitalGeneral hospital623FTE
- Lewis CountyExec and leg ofcs combined570
- Great Wolf Lodge - Grand MoundHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities518
- United Natural FoodsGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers513
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters494
- Centralia CollegeUniversity or college437
- Centralia School DistrictSchool district408FTE
- Department of Children, Youth & FamiliesCorrectional institutions397
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,507 people in all across the county; Packwood has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Packwood’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 Lewis County and the Centralia, WA metro.
Packwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Packwood$451,597
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Packwood listings — 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.
- Packwood22.96%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Packwood37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Packwood7
Zip codes with a Packwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Packwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.