Sedro-Woolley, Washington.
Typical home $488,513 (-0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,959 . Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,404 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,378 -0%
- $489,891$488,513 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,255 +15%
- $423,258$488,513 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.
- Sedro-Woolley$2,564
- 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 Sedro-Woolley, WA fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington
Sedro-Woolley is a city of 12,421 people in Skagit County. Half its households earn more than $80,885 a year and half less, against $89,263 across Skagit County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Skagit County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sedro-Woolley is a small city in Skagit County, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Most households own their homes, though there are fewer owners than across much of the country, and rents are well up in the range that Zillow shows for the region. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and damp but only lightly snowy, and summers stay mild and never turn hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in town include the Sedro-Woolley School District, Janicki Industries, which makes molds and other industrial products, and United General Medical Center, a critical access hospital. Jobs across the county have grown only slightly over the past year, and unemployment in Skagit County is about where it was a year ago. The typical commute is a long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Lincoln Theatre is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Larrabee State Park and Deception Pass State Park are both protected areas a longer drive away, and Lake Whatcom is a lake reached by a longer drive as well. The Stillaguamish River, the Samish River and the Nooksack River are also within a longer drive for anyone who likes to spend time by the water.
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- 4,895households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Skagit County had 54,140 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 75° and lows near 53°. About 6 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sedro-woolley weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedro-Woolley
- Sedro-Woolley School DistrictSchool district541FTE
- Janicki IndustriesMolds, industrial, manufacturing475
- United General Medical CenterCritical access hospital299FTE
- Snelson CompaniesNatural gas pipeline construction181
- Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Northwest RegionLand management program administration164
- Life Care Center of Skagit ValleyNursing home117
- Sedron Technologies LLC 500 MetcalfVessels, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing79
- BirchviewMTAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,728 people in all. 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
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Sedro-Woolley’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 Skagit County and the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA metro.
Sedro-Woolley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sedro-Woolley$488,513
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Sedro-Woolley listings — 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.
- Sedro-Woolley38.74%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sedro-Woolley53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sedro-Woolley16
Zip codes with a Sedro-Woolley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sedro-Woolley — 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.