Riverside, Washington.
Typical home $247,815 (-1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$632 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,563 -2%
- $252,378$247,815 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,732 +4%
- $239,084$247,815 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.
- Riverside$1,301
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 97 years.
Typical home values in Riverside, WA fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverside, Okanogan County, Washington
Riverside is a town of 329 people in Okanogan County. Unemployment in Okanogan County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Okanogan County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverside is a very small town in Okanogan County, in the dry country of north-central Washington. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with December highs right around freezing, and summers are hot in July, while the year brings little rain or melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Okanogan County, some of the largest workplaces are the Omak School District, Mid-valley Hospital and Stemilt AG Services. The typical commute is short, and job numbers across the county grew a little last year.
Things to do. Evans Lake lies in or beside town, and Chewiliken Creek, a small river, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Okanogan National Forest and Conconully State Park are both protected areas a longer drive away, and Loup Loup Ski Bowl is a ski area a longer drive away as well.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
What people in Okanogan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Okanogan County had 17,526 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 32° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 58°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Omak Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Okanogan County
- Omak School DistrictSchool district392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters318
- Stemilt AG ServicesNon citrus fruit farming274
- Honeybear GrowersBerries, fresh, merchant wholesalers216
- Mid-valley HospitalCritical access hospital188FTE
- Tonasket School DistrictSchool district142FTE
- Okanogan School DistrictSchool district140FTE
- Brewster School DistrictSchool district130FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,872 people in all across the county; Riverside has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riverside’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 Okanogan County.
Riverside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverside$247,815
- 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.
- Riverside14
Zip codes with a Riverside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.