Silverlake, Washington.
Typical home $485,912 (+0.2% in a year). Longview, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,361 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $865 +0%
- $485,047$485,912 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,051 +15%
- $422,862$485,912 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.
- Silverlake$2,550
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Silverlake, WA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Silverlake, Cowlitz County, Washington
The Census does not count Silverlake on its own, so the figures here are Cowlitz County's. Half the county's households earn more than $76,531 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Cowlitz County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cowlitz County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Silverlake is in Cowlitz County in southwestern Washington. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and August is the warmest.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Unemployment across Cowlitz County is a little lower than a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year. Commutes are fairly long for many, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Silver Lake, a reservoir in or beside town, is a simple place to spend time by the water. Seaquest State Park, a protected area in or beside town, offers a quiet place for walks and time outdoors. The Toutle River, a short drive away, suits a longer outing.
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- 43,943households
- 41.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Cowlitz County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cowlitz County had 41,077 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 51°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toledo Faa Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cowlitz County
- JH KellyMechanical contractors1,411
- St. John Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- WestRock LongviewPulp & paper non newsprint867
- Longview School DistrictSchool district783FTE
- Kelso School DistrictSchool district627FTE
- Lower Columbia CollegeUniversity or college602
- Nippon Dynawave PackagingWood pulp manufacturing586
- north pacific paper companyPulp mills producing newsprint paper495
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,104 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cowlitz 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 Cowlitz County and the Longview, WA metro.
Silverlake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Silverlake$485,912
- 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.
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.
- Silverlake13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Silverlake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Silverlake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.