A typical Friday Harbor home is worth about $884,000
About the same as a year ago, 49% above the Washington typical home.
What kind of housing town is Friday Harbor?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 11 years of income
More than across Washington (6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $556K short of a typical Friday Harbor home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,810 a month here, $3,210 less than owning.
How Friday Harbor ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Friday Harbor’s typical property tax (0.52% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 6.6% in five years
Slower than Washington (11.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Friday Harbor | Washington |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $484,000 | $326,000 |
| 2018 | $527,000 | $362,000 |
| 2019 | $570,000 | $390,000 |
| 2020 | $597,000 | $413,000 |
| 2021 | $696,000 | $471,000 |
| 2022 | $911,000 | $554,000 |
| 2023 | $914,000 | $572,000 |
| 2024 | $883,000 | $582,000 |
| 2025 | $903,000 | $605,000 |
| 2026 | $883,000 | $601,000 |
| August 2026 | $884,000 | $592,000 |
A typical Friday Harbor home worth $471K in August 2016 is worth about $884K today.
How Friday Harbor ranks on rising home prices →
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,810
Renters already here pay a median of $1,696.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (San Juan County, WA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
10 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 10 new homes in Friday Harbor in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $3.7 million to build. That's 3.7 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of Washington as a whole. Over the past 10 years, Friday Harbor has permitted 178 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Friday Harbor gained 451 residents while 244 new homes were permitted: about 1.8 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. Across Washington: 2.7 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 24 | 0 | 24 | $1.8 million |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | 0 | $3.7 million |
| 2024 | 10 | 6 | 4 | $3.1 million |
| 2023 | 10 | 2 | 8 | $3 million |
| 2022 | 11 | 3 | 8 | $5.3 million |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 | 0 | $3.1 million |
| 2020 | 13 | 11 | 2 | $3 million |
| 2019 | 46 | 26 | 20 | $6.5 million |
| 2018 | 31 | 27 | 4 | $3.8 million |
| 2017 | 10 | 7 | 3 | $1.7 million |
| 2016 | 22 | 16 | 6 | $3.1 million |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $494,000 |
| 2014 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2013 | 16 | 16 | 0 | $2.8 million |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 23 | 23 | 0 | $4.3 million |
| 2010 | 82 | 82 | 0 | $5.5 million |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $311,000 |
| 2008 | 17 | 12 | 5 | $3.3 million |
| 2007 | 47 | 13 | 34 | $6 million |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2005 | 31 | 27 | 4 | $6.7 million |
| 2004 | 28 | 14 | 14 | $4.9 million |
| 2003 | 13 | 13 | 0 | $3.2 million |
| 2002 | 14 | 11 | 3 | $1.9 million |
| 2001 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2000 | 12 | 6 | 6 | $1.8 million |
How Friday Harbor ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
59% of Friday Harbor households own their home
Half of Friday Harbor’s homes were built before 1988.
Washington: 64% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
On the market in Friday Harbor
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Friday Harbor buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.