Sultan, Washington.
Typical home $555,687 (+0.5% in a year). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,558 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,612 +0%
- $553,076$555,687 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,945 +13%
- $492,742$555,687 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.
- Sultan$2,917
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Sultan, WA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington
Sultan is a city of 5,146 people in Snohomish County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Snohomish 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sultan is a small city in Snohomish County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of homeowners is higher than in many places. Residents are somewhat younger than in much of the country, and the share living below the poverty line is fairly low. A four-year degree is less common among adults here than the typical home value might suggest, and the typical home costs a good deal. Winters are cool and wet, with the coldest weather in December, while summers are mild and pleasant, warmest in August. Rain and melted snow add up to a great deal over the year, well beyond what much of the country sees.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing or in the building trades. Commutes are long, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Snohomish County, large employers include Snohomish County Government, Amazon and the Northshore School District, and jobs in the county grew only slightly last year.
Things to do. Wallace Falls State Park, a protected area with waterfalls and forest, is a short drive away. The Pilchuck River is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Snoqualmie Falls is a well-known waterfall, and Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is a large protected area, both a longer drive away.
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- 2,144households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Snohomish County had 299,062 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 78° and lows near 51°. About 68 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Startup East weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Snohomish County
- Snohomish County GovernmentGeneral public administration3,390
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,821
- Prov Regl MED Center EverettGeneral hospital2,816FTE
- Northshore School DistrictSchool district2,451FTE
- Edmonds School DistrictSchool district2,158FTE
- Everett School DistrictSchool district2,083FTE
- Mukilteo School DistrictSchool district1,694FTE
- City of EverettAuditor's offices, government1,198
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 522 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 69,999 people in all across the county; Sultan has one of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sultan’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Snohomish County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Sultan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sultan$555,687
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Sultan listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Sultan32.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sultan51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sultan15
Zip codes with a Sultan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sultan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.