Union Gap, Washington.
Typical home $258,466 (+0.2% in a year). Yakima, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$743 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $601 +0%
- $257,865$258,466 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,912 +18%
- $218,554$258,466 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.
- Union Gap$1,357
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Union Gap, WA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Union Gap, Yakima County, Washington
Union Gap is a city of 6,568 people in Yakima County. Half its households earn more than $59,651 a year and half less, against $70,656 across Yakima County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% 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 schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Union Gap is a small city in Yakima County, in central Washington. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though incomes run below the county's and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values sit in the middle of the range for a town this size.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in town are Borton Packing Center, South Central Region WSDOT and UPS. Commutes are short, and only a few people work from home. Across Yakima County, jobs slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is unchanged from a year earlier.
Things to do. The Yakima Area Arboretum, a botanical garden, is in or beside town, as is Parker Field, a stadium. A short drive away are the Yakima Valley Museum and the Capitol Theatre. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot and dry.
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- 2,242households
- 4%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 7%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 55°. About 20 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yakima Air Terminal weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union Gap
- Borton Packing CenterGeneral warehousing and storage782
- South Central Region WSDOTTransportation521
- CROEnvironmental protection program administration175
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services128
- International Paper: Yakima ContainerBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard115
- FedExCourier and express delivery services95
- Union Gap School DistrictSchool district71FTE
- G.S. Long Co., Inc. - Field OperationsFeed stores70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,292 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Union Gap’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.
Union Gap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Union Gap$258,466
- 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.
- Union Gap8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Union Gap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Union Gap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.