Washington, Utah.
Typical home $539,340 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,781 (+3.2%). St. George, UT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,549 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,342 -0%
- $541,682$539,340 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,710 +8%
- $498,630$539,340 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.
- Washington$2,831
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Washington, UT fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Washington, UT rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Washington runs $1,817/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,046 in Oct 2022.
That is $3,598 a month against $1,781 rent: a $2,831 mortgage payment, plus $190 property tax and $577 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Washington
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$3,598
- Renting$1,781
- Mortgage only$2,831
Property tax · $190/mo 0.42% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Washington County, UT
Insurance & upkeep · $577/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 Washington, Washington County, Utah
Washington is a city of 27,993 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $91,853 a year and half less, against $80,632 across Washington County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Washington was 3.5% in August 2026, and Washington County had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Washington is a city in the desert of southwestern Utah, in Washington County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run higher than across the county, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are mild and almost snowless, summers are very hot, and the rainfall is light, which suits a desert landscape of red rock.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Some of the biggest workplaces in town are Walmart, Albertsons and St George Retirement, a continuing care retirement community. Most people have a short drive to work, and a fair number work from home. Jobs across Washington County have grown over the past year, and unemployment in town has held steady.
Things to do. Snow Canyon State Park and Red Cliffs National Conservation Area are both a short drive away and offer protected desert country for walking and sightseeing. Sand Hollow State Park, with its reservoir, is also a short drive away. Zion National Park, one of the best known in the country, is a longer drive but within reach for a day out.
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- 11,501households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 89,775 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 53° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 102° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. George weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters488
- Double ArrowLocal letter and parcel delivery services as part of intercity courier network94
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores89
- St George RetirementContinuing care retirement communities54
- Cole West SouthHousing, multifamily, construction general contractors51
- Forward Motion Medical SystemsLaboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers50
- Kohl's45
- NWPX Geneva - WashingtonConduits, concrete, manufacturing35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 985 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of WashingtonRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of WashingtonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washington’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 Washington County and the St. George, UT metro.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$539,340
- Utah$532,920
- 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 3 Washington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 38 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.
- Washington28.73%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Washington38
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Washington392
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Washington91
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Washington$573,253
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Washington98.26%
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.