Prescott, Washington.
Typical home $421,734 (+4.8% in a year). Walla Walla, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,246 (+129%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,402 +5%
- $402,332$421,734 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,874 +31%
- $322,860$421,734 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.
- Prescott$2,214
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Prescott, WA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prescott, Walla Walla County, Washington
Prescott is a city of 372 people in Walla Walla County. Unemployment in Walla Walla County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Walla Walla 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prescott is a very small city in Walla Walla County, in the dry farm country of southeastern Washington. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home. Homes cost more than the county's incomes might suggest, since the typical home value runs well above what a household earning the county's median income would usually spend.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing many. Across Walla County, some of the largest workplaces are Walla Walla Public Schools, Providence St. Mary Medical Center and FirstFruits Farms, an apple grower. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Whisky Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Palouse Falls, a waterfall, and to Whitman Mission National Historic Site, an archaeological site with a place in the region's history. Lewis & Clark Trail State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive. Winters are cold with a little snow, and summers turn hot, so spring and early autumn suit time outdoors.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Walla Walla County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walla Walla County had 28,319 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 41° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 62°. About 6 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walla Walla Regional Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walla Walla County
- FirstFruits FarmsApple orchards2,092
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering1,442
- Washington State PenitentiaryCorrectional institutions1,138
- Prov St Mary Medical CenterGeneral hospital731FTE
- Walla Walla Public SchoolsSchool district679FTE
- Walla Walla Community CollegeUniversity or college552
- Whitman CollegeUniversity or college552
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs492
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,168 people in all across the county; Prescott 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), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Prescott’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 Walla Walla County and the Walla Walla, WA metro.
Prescott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prescott$421,734
- 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.
Zip codes with a Prescott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prescott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.