Vader, Washington.
Typical home $342,216 (-1.3% in a year). Centralia, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,039 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,629 -1%
- $346,845$342,216 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,933 +10%
- $311,283$342,216 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.
- Vader$1,796
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Vader, WA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Vader is a city of 629 people in Lewis County. Unemployment in Lewis County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vader is a very small city in Lewis County, Washington, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Homes here cost less than in many parts of the country, and the town sits in a county where household incomes are somewhat higher than what many residents might expect for a place this size. Winters are cool and damp, with December the coldest month and highs staying well above freezing, while August brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many people. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and commutes tend to be long, so many people travel a good distance to their jobs. Some work from home, and across Lewis County the largest workplaces include Providence Centralia Hospital, Centralia College and Walmart.
Things to do. Close to town, Gospodor Monument Park is a roadside tourist attraction a short drive away, and the Winlock Egg is another quirky tourist attraction nearby. Seaquest State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For more time outdoors, Silver Lake, a reservoir, and the Toutle River are a longer drive away.
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- 241households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 37 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 27,423 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 51°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toledo Faa Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Providence Centralia HospitalGeneral hospital623FTE
- Lewis CountyExec and leg ofcs combined570
- Great Wolf Lodge - Grand MoundHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities518
- United Natural FoodsGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers513
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters494
- Centralia CollegeUniversity or college437
- Centralia School DistrictSchool district408FTE
- Department of Children, Youth & FamiliesCorrectional institutions397
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,507 people in all across the county; Vader has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- AvalanchesRelatively 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 Vader’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 Lewis County and the Centralia, WA metro.
Vader home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vader$342,216
- 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.
- Vader6
Zip codes with a Vader address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vader — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.