Randle, Washington.
Typical home $339,841 (+0.7% in a year). Centralia, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,044 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,501 +1%
- $337,339$339,841 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,166 +16%
- $293,674$339,841 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.
- Randle$1,784
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Randle, WA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Randle, Lewis County, Washington
The Census does not count Randle on its own, so the figures here are Lewis County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,796 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Randle sits in Lewis County in southwestern Washington, in the foothills of the Cascade Range. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older than the national norm. Winters are cold and snowy, with more rain than in most parts of the country, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and the building trades. Jobs across Lewis County grew slightly last year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a degree than in many parts of the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Mount Rainier National Park, a national park a longer drive away, is one of the best known places in the state. Gifford Pinchot National Forest, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers forest land to explore. Comet Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away, is another option for a day outdoors.
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- 32,916households
- 42.2median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
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, 10 miles 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. 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lewis County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Randle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Randle$339,841
- 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.
- Randle16
Zip codes with a Randle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Randle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.