Roslyn, Washington.
Typical home $450,572 (+1.6% in a year). Ellensburg, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,352 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,003 +2%
- $443,569$450,572 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,289 +18%
- $380,283$450,572 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.
- Roslyn$2,365
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Roslyn, WA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roslyn, Kittitas County, Washington
Roslyn is a city of 950 people in Kittitas County. Unemployment in Kittitas County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kittitas County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roslyn is a very small city in Kittitas County, with a population that is among the smallest of any place on this site. Residents are somewhat older than in the typical American community, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while August is the warmest month and still pleasantly mild. Rain and melted snow add up over the year to a fair amount of moisture.
Work. Residents of Roslyn work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in the building trades. The largest workplaces across Kittitas County include Central Washington University, Kittitas Valley Healthcare and Kittitas Valley Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Cle Elum Lake, a reservoir, lies in or beside town, and Lake Easton State Park and Lake Easton are a short drive away. The Yakima River, a river known well beyond the county, is also a short drive away, and for a longer outing there is Crystal Mountain, a ski area.
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- 494households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Kittitas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kittitas County had 16,812 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 35° and lows near 25°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 50°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Easton weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kittitas County
- Central Washington UniversityUniversity or college1,626
- The Summit at SnoqualmieSki resorts without accommodations708
- Kittitas Valley Community HospitalCritical access hospital474FTE
- Ellensburg School DistrictSchool district369FTE
- City of EllensburgCity and town managers' offices260
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters254
- Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Southeast RegionLand management program administration216
- Twin City Foods, Inc Ellensburg DivisionVegetables, frozen, manufacturing155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,372 people in all across the county; Roslyn has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Roslyn’s census tracts, 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 Kittitas County and the Ellensburg, WA metro.
Roslyn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roslyn$450,572
- 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.
- Roslyn9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Roslyn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roslyn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.