Vaughn, Washington.
Typical home $705,670 (+0.0% in a year). Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,031 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $271 +0%
- $705,398$705,670 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,539 +14%
- $620,130$705,670 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.
- Vaughn$3,704
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Vaughn, WA rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vaughn, Pierce County, Washington
Vaughn, in Pierce County, had 565 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pierce County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pierce County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vaughn is a small community in Pierce County, with a residential feel and a population well on the older side compared with most of the country. Homes here are worth a good deal more than what is typical across the county, though household incomes in the county as a whole run close to the national middle. Winters are cool and wet, with the coldest weather in December, and summers stay mild, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. The commute is on the long side, which fits a place where many people travel to jobs elsewhere in the region. Across Pierce County, some of the largest workplaces are MultiCare Health System, Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital and the Puyallup School District, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Cutts Island State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest outing on the list. For a day in the city, the Space Needle, one of the best known tourist attractions in the region, and the Museum of Pop Culture are a longer drive away. Lumen Field, a stadium, is also a longer drive, so a game day is best planned as a trip of its own.
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- 37 mintypical commute
What people in Pierce County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pierce County had 337,071 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 54°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tacoma Narrows Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pierce County
- City of TacomaGovernment base facilities operation support services3,921
- Tacoma General Allenmore HospitalGeneral hospital2,897FTE
- WSH2,623
- MultiCare Health SystemPhysicians, mental health, offices e.g., centers, clinics2,526
- Puyallup School DistrictSchool district2,443FTE
- MultiCare Health SystemOffices of physicians2,402
- Bethel School DistrictSchool district2,281FTE
- St Joseph Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,232FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 680 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 98,490 people in all across the county; Vaughn has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vaughn’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 Pierce County and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro.
Vaughn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vaughn$705,670
- 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.
- Vaughn9
Zip codes with a Vaughn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vaughn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.