Wenatchee, Washington.
Typical home $490,972 (+0.1% in a year), asking rent $1,679 (+0.9%). Wenatchee, WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,292 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $339 +0%
- $490,633$490,972 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,459 +10%
- $445,512$490,972 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.
- Wenatchee$2,577
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Wenatchee, WA rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Wenatchee, WA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Wenatchee runs $1,716/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,831 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,395 a month against $1,679 rent: a $2,577 mortgage payment, plus $292 property tax and $526 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Wenatchee
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$3,395
- Renting$1,679
- Mortgage only$2,577
Property tax · $292/mo 0.71% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Chelan County, WA
Insurance & upkeep · $526/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 Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington
Wenatchee is a city of 35,508 people in Chelan County. Half its households earn more than $73,040 a year and half less, against $82,381 across Chelan County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Wenatchee was 4.4% in August 2026, and Chelan County had 0.7% fewer 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. Wenatchee is a city on the Wenatchee River, with a population that has stayed fairly modest and a median age a little younger than many towns its size. Incomes are lower than across Chelan County as a whole, and more of the homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too. Winters are cold and bring some snow, summers turn hot, and the rainfall is light.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels. Confluence Health, the Wenatchee School District and Stemilt Growers are among the largest workplaces in town, which reflects both its health care base and its fruit-growing surroundings. Commutes are short, and unemployment has stayed close to where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Wenatchee River runs through town, and Wenatchee Confluence State Park sits beside it, a protected area for time outdoors. The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center is also in town for a quieter afternoon. Squilchuck State Park is a short drive away, and Mission Ridge Ski Area is a longer drive for winter days on the snow.
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- 14,260households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chelan County had 44,636 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 62°. About 16 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wenatchee weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wenatchee
- Confluence HealthGeneral hospital2,288FTE
- Central Washington Health Services - Central CampusPhysicians' offices2,287
- Wenatchee School DistrictSchool district897FTE
- Confluence HealthPhysicians' offices858
- Stemilt GrowersFruit crop prep srvcs storage & packing678
- Custom OrchardsAgriculture658
- Columbia Orchard MgtApple orchards562
- Columbia Valley Community HealthCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient503
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,210 people in all. 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of WenatcheeRelatively 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 Wenatchee’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 Chelan County and the Wenatchee, WA metro.
Wenatchee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wenatchee$490,972
- 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 3 Wenatchee listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 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.
- Wenatchee29.99%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Wenatchee15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wenatchee150
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wenatchee43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wenatchee$546,224
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Wenatchee99.44%
Zip codes with a Wenatchee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wenatchee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.