Wauconda, Washington.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,588 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
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$3,084
- United States$1,922
Living in Wauconda, Okanogan County, Washington
The Census does not count Wauconda on its own, so the figures here are Okanogan County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,207 a year and half less; 21% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Okanogan County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Okanogan County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wauconda is a small town in Okanogan County, Washington, and the figures for it are the county's, since the Census does not count the town on its own. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a sizeable share of residents live on incomes below the poverty line. Winters are cold and bring heavy snow, summers are warm, and rain is light for most of the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Across the county, jobs grew over the past year, though unemployment has edged up a little from a year before. Commutes are short, and relatively few residents work from home.
Things to do. Osoyoos Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away and is the best known of the nearby waters. Bonaparte Lake, another reservoir, and the Mount Bonaparte Lookout, a tourist attraction, are both a short drive away.
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- 17,540households
- 43.2median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Okanogan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Okanogan County had 17,526 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 46°. About 52 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Republic weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Okanogan County
- Omak School DistrictSchool district392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters318
- Stemilt AG ServicesNon citrus fruit farming274
- Honeybear GrowersBerries, fresh, merchant wholesalers216
- Mid-valley HospitalCritical access hospital188FTE
- Tonasket School DistrictSchool district142FTE
- Okanogan School DistrictSchool district140FTE
- Brewster School DistrictSchool district130FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,872 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Okanogan County, 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 Okanogan County.
Wauconda home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wauconda6
Zip codes with a Wauconda address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wauconda — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.