Toutle, Washington.
Typical home $508,192 (+2.8% in a year). Longview, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,566 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,071 +3%
- $494,120$508,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $106,525 +27%
- $401,667$508,192 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.
- Toutle$2,667
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Toutle, WA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Toutle, Cowlitz County, Washington
The Census does not count Toutle on its own, so the figures here are Cowlitz County's. Half the county's households earn more than $76,531 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Cowlitz County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cowlitz County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Toutle is a small community in Cowlitz County, in southwestern Washington, set among river valleys and forested hills. Across Cowlitz County, most homes are lived in by their owners. Median incomes are lower than the state's, so the cost of living here tends to feel more manageable for many households.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Unemployment has eased a little over the last year, while the number of jobs has dipped slightly. Relatively few people work from home, so most daily commutes go out of town.
Things to do. The Toutle River is a river a short drive away, and the North Fork Toutle River is another river a short drive away. Spirit Lake is a lake a longer drive away, and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. Winters here are cold and wet, with a little snow, and summers are warm, so the seasons shape when these outdoor places are easiest to visit.
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- 43,943households
- 41.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Cowlitz County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cowlitz County had 41,077 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 51°. About 3 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mayfield Pwr Plt weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cowlitz County
- JH KellyMechanical contractors1,411
- St. John Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- WestRock LongviewPulp & paper non newsprint867
- Longview School DistrictSchool district783FTE
- Kelso School DistrictSchool district627FTE
- Lower Columbia CollegeUniversity or college602
- Nippon Dynawave PackagingWood pulp manufacturing586
- north pacific paper companyPulp mills producing newsprint paper495
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,104 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cowlitz County, 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 Cowlitz County and the Longview, WA metro.
Toutle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Toutle$508,192
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
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.
- Toutle7
Zip codes with a Toutle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Toutle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.