Pullman, Washington.
Typical home $427,661 (-1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,454 (-0.5%). Pullman, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,055 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,131 -1%
- $432,792$427,661 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,939 +9%
- $391,723$427,661 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.
- Pullman$2,245
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Pullman, WA fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pullman, WA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pullman runs $1,515/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,905 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,969 a month against $1,454 rent: a $2,245 mortgage payment, plus $267 property tax and $458 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pullman
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,969
- Renting$1,454
- Mortgage only$2,245
Property tax · $267/mo 0.75% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Whitman County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $458/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington
Pullman is a city of 32,901 people in Whitman County. Half its households earn more than $46,812 a year and half less, against $55,406 across Whitman County; 30% of its people live below the poverty line. 32% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 68% are rented. Unemployment in Pullman was 4.3% in August 2026, and Whitman County had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Pullman is a college city, and it feels like one: residents are much younger than in most of the country, and most households rent rather than own, a good deal more than across the county. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect, a pattern common in towns with a large student population. A great many adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is short.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Pullman are Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Pullman Regional Hospital and the Pullman School District. Unemployment is a little higher than a year ago, and across Whitman County there are somewhat fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Football and other college sports are close at hand, with Martin Stadium, Rogers Field and Bailey–Brayton Field all in or beside town. A short drive away, the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden offers a quiet place to walk. For a longer outing, Steptoe Butte State Park and Tamarack Ski Area are both a longer drive away, and winters here are cold and snowy enough to make the skiing worth considering.
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- 12,682households
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whitman County had 18,880 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 25°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 50°. About 33 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pullman Northwest weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pullman
- Schweitzer Engineering LaboratoriesElectrical equipment manufacturing2,592
- Pullman Regional HospitalCritical access hospital488FTE
- Pullman School DistrictSchool district322FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores132
- SEL Engineering ServicesEngineering services123
- Motley & MotleyCondominium, single-family, construction general contractors98
- Agricultural Research ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture86
- Pullman Regional HospitalPhysicians', mental health, offices75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,989 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pullman’s census tracts, 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 Whitman County and the Pullman, WA metro.
Pullman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pullman$427,661
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pullman listings, and the typical home goes pending in 41 days — 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.
- Pullman26.37%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pullman99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pullman20
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pullman$413,993
- United States$370,717
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pullman98.68%
Zip codes with a Pullman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pullman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.