Walla Walla, Washington.
Typical home $414,086 (+0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,556 (+3.4%). Walla Walla, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,184 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,736 +0%
- $412,350$414,086 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,634 +17%
- $353,452$414,086 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.
- Walla Walla$2,173
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Walla Walla, WA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Walla Walla, WA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Walla Walla runs $1,355/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,398 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,911 a month against $1,556 rent: a $2,173 mortgage payment, plus $295 property tax and $443 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Walla Walla
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,911
- Renting$1,556
- Mortgage only$2,173
Property tax · $295/mo 0.85% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Walla Walla County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $443/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Washington
Walla Walla is a city of 34,060 people in Walla Walla County. Half its households earn more than $66,748 a year and half less, against $74,202 across Walla Walla County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Walla Walla was 4.3% in August 2026, and Walla Walla County had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Walla Walla is a small city in southeastern Washington where a typical trip to work is short, shorter than in many places. Incomes run below the county's as a whole, and more of the homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renters make up a sizable part of the town. Winters are cold, with highs and lows near freezing in December, and summers turn hot by July. Snow is light and the year is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops and manufacturing also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walla Walla Public Schools, Whitman College and the Washington State Penitentiary. Job numbers across the county slipped over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Fort Walla Walla sits in or beside town, and Borleske Stadium is nearby as well. A short drive away is Whitman Mission National Historic Site, an archaeological site tied to the area's early history. Yellowhawk Creek is also a short drive away for time near the water.
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- 13,084households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Walla Walla County had 28,319 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 41° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 62°. About 6 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walla Walla Regional Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walla Walla
- Washington State PenitentiaryCorrectional institutions1,138
- Walla Walla Public SchoolsSchool district679FTE
- Whitman CollegeUniversity or college552
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs492
- US Army Corps of EngineersPersonnel offices, government345
- Key TechnologyGrading, cleaning, and sorting machinery manufacturing321
- Northwest Grain GrowersGrain elevators, storage only143
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores133
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,941 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of Walla WallaRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of Walla WallaRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walla Walla’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Walla Walla County and the Walla Walla, WA metro.
Walla Walla home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walla Walla$414,086
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Walla Walla listings, and the typical home goes pending in 49 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Walla Walla28.38%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Walla Walla49
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Walla Walla240
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Walla Walla47
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Walla Walla$380,100
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Walla Walla98.19%
Zip codes with a Walla Walla address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walla Walla — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.