Sunnyside, Washington.
Typical home $317,653 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,900 . Kennewick-Richland, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$913 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,043 +0%
- $316,610$317,653 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,352 +17%
- $272,301$317,653 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.
- Sunnyside$1,667
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Sunnyside, WA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunnyside, Benton County, Washington
Sunnyside is a city of 16,375 people in Benton County. Half its households earn more than $60,923 a year and half less, against $89,874 across Benton County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Benton County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunnyside is a small city in Benton County with a notably young population, a good deal younger than most of the country. Incomes run well below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical. A modest majority of homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in farming, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Sunnyside are the Sunnyside School District, Sunnyside Community Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in Benton County is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs. The commute is moderate, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Hanford Reach National Monument, another protected area, and Priest Rapids Lake, a reservoir. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing, summers are hot and dry, and little rain or snow falls across the year.
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- 4,440households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 99,920 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 54°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sunnyside weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sunnyside
- Sunnyside School DistrictSchool district755FTE
- Sunnyside Community Hospital AssHospitals, general medical and surgical411
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters354
- Astria Sunnyside HospitalPhysicians' offices342
- DarigoldCurds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing231
- Darigold.incCheese231
- Astria Sunnyside HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical106
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores99
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,153 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of SunnysideRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of SunnysideRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sunnyside’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 Benton County and the Kennewick-Richland, WA metro.
Sunnyside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunnyside$317,653
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Sunnyside listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Sunnyside18.15%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sunnyside33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sunnyside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunnyside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.