Wilbur, Washington.
Typical home $296,721 (+0.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$874 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,056 +0%
- $295,665$296,721 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,615 +17%
- $254,105$296,721 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.
- Wilbur$1,557
- 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 Wilbur, WA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilbur, Lincoln County, Washington
Wilbur is a town of 895 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $55,625 a year and half less, against $71,512 across Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilbur is a small town in Lincoln County, Washington, where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal more than those incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around the freezing point, and summers turn properly warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a dry year overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, then the building trades and manufacturing. Across Lincoln County, some of the largest workplaces are Lincoln Hospital, the Reardan-Edwall School District and McKay Seed Company, which grows wheat and produces seed. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and commutes are of a middling length, with some people working from home.
Things to do. Sinking Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, a large reservoir, and to Steamboat Rock State Park, a protected area. Fort Spokane, a historic fort, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 382households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 2,700 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 50°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilbur weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln HospitalCritical access hospital128FTE
- Reardan-Edwall School DistrictSchool district87FTE
- Davenport School DistrictSchool district79FTE
- Odessa Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital53FTE
- McKay Seed CompanyWheat farming, field and seed production50
- Halme BuildersCommercial building construction general contractors42
- Ritzville Warehouse CoPlanting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers40
- Wilbur School DistrictSchool district38FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 267 people in all across the county; Wilbur has one 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
- WildfireVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilbur’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lincoln County.
Wilbur home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilbur$296,721
- Washington$587,533
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Wilbur listings — 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.
- Wilbur16.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wilbur20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wilbur address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilbur — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.