Steilacoom, Washington.
Typical home $633,343 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,805 . Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,705 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,186 +1%
- $629,157$633,343 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,088 +10%
- $575,254$633,343 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.
- Steilacoom$3,324
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Steilacoom, WA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Steilacoom, Pierce County, Washington
Steilacoom is a town of 6,727 people in Pierce County. Half its households earn more than $100,851 a year and half less, against $99,564 across Pierce County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Pierce County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Steilacoom is a small town on the shore of Puget Sound in Pierce County, and its history reaches back to the nineteenth century. Most homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run a little above the county's, and adults here are more likely than most to hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and wet rather than harsh, summers stay mild, and rain falls across much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Steilacoom Historical School District and the Town of Steilacoom itself. A good number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Fort Steilacoom Park and Waughop Lake are in or beside town, and Fort Steilacoom, a museum, is there too. A short drive away are American Lake and the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area along the river delta. Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium is also a short drive away.
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- 2,813households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pierce County had 337,071 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more 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 76° and lows near 54°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tacoma Narrows Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Steilacoom
- Dshs346
- Steilacoom Hist. School DistrictSchool district296FTE
- Town of SteilacoomExecutive offices, federal, state, and local52
- Sodexo at Steilacoom HistoricalFood service contractors30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 428 people in all. School districts come 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Steilacoom’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 Pierce County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Steilacoom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Steilacoom$633,343
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Steilacoom 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.
- Steilacoom33.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Steilacoom30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Steilacoom9
Zip codes with a Steilacoom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Steilacoom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Steilacoom
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98388 | Steilacoom | 7,043 | $1,805 | $640,034 |
| 98303 | Anderson Island | 1,448 | — | $475,307 |