Toppenish, Washington.
Typical home $269,289 (-1.4% in a year). Yakima, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,755 -1%
- $273,043$269,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,609 +11%
- $242,680$269,289 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.
- Toppenish$1,413
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Toppenish, WA fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Toppenish, Yakima County, Washington
Toppenish is a city of 8,854 people in Yakima County. Half its households earn more than $67,854 a year and half less, against $70,656 across Yakima 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 Yakima County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Toppenish is a small city in the Yakima Valley, and its residents are young for a place of its size, with a median age well below what many older homeowners might expect. Incomes run a little below the county's, and more households than across much of the country live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of residents rent. Winters are cold, with December highs just above freezing and lows well below it, while July brings hot days. Snow falls most winters, and the year's precipitation is light.
Work. Residents work mainly in farming, schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing and shops. The largest workplaces in town include the Toppenish School District, Toppenish Community Hospital and Safeway. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most of the country, and the typical commute is of moderate length, with very few people working from home. Across Yakima County, the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area a longer drive away. Fort Simcoe, an old fort, and the Yakima Electric Railway Museum are also a longer drive away, as is the Capitol Theatre. All of them make a day out for anyone willing to travel a little beyond town.
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- 2,447households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yakima County had 115,435 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 59°. About 20 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wapato weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Toppenish
- Toppenish School DistrictSchool district451FTE
- Toppenish Community HospitalGeneral hospital183FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores102
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services92
- Portco Packaging - ToppenishPaper bags, coated, made from purchased paper58
- Department of Children Youth and Families26
- Indian AffairsFederal government · Department of the Interior23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 485 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Toppenish’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 Yakima County and the Yakima, WA metro.
Toppenish home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Toppenish$269,289
- 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.
- Toppenish11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Toppenish address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Toppenish — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.