Snoqualmie, Washington.
Typical home $1,051,345 (-2.8% in a year), asking rent $3,312 (+3.1%). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,098 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $30,163 -3%
- $1,081,508$1,051,345 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,113 +15%
- $913,232$1,051,345 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.
- Snoqualmie$5,518
- 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 Snoqualmie, WA fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Snoqualmie, WA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Snoqualmie runs $4,056/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,820 in Jan 2025.
That is $7,369 a month against $3,312 rent: a $5,518 mortgage payment, plus $725 property tax and $1,126 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Snoqualmie
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$7,369
- Renting$3,312
- Mortgage only$5,518
Property tax · $725/mo 0.83% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for King County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,126/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Snoqualmie is a city of 14,121 people in King County. Half its households earn more than $214,107 a year and half less, against $124,746 across King County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in King County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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. Snoqualmie is a small city in King County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and most adults hold a four-year degree. The typical home here costs a good deal, and rents are high too.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in town include Snoqualmie Valley School District, Snoqualmie Valley Hospital and Spacelabs Healthcare. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home instead.
Things to do. Snoqualmie Falls, a waterfall, is in or beside town, and the Snoqualmie River is a short drive away. For a day out in the city, Lake Washington and the Space Needle are a longer drive away. Winters are cool and wet, with only a little snow, and summers are mild and warm.
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- 4,582households
- 71%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 33%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. King County had 1,436,484 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°. About 4 inches of snow and 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Snoqualmie Falls weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Snoqualmie
- Snoqualmie Valley School DistrictSchool district745FTE
- Spacelabs HealthcareDiagnostic equipment, electromedical, manufacturing429
- Snoqualmie Valley HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals287
- Snoqualmie Valley HospitalCritical access hospital166FTE
- Doolittle constructionPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction134
- ZetecLevel gauges, radiation-type, manufacturing124
- Puget Sound EnergyElectric power generation, hydroelectric118
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,524 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Snoqualmie’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 King County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Snoqualmie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Snoqualmie$1,051,345
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Snoqualmie 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.
- Snoqualmie37.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Snoqualmie80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Snoqualmie23
Zip codes with a Snoqualmie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Snoqualmie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.