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Housing in Hamilton

A typical Hamilton home is worth roughly $237,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$237K
WA $592K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,770
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,910
WA $4,556

What kind of housing town is Hamilton?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Hamilton

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$387,000
Typical Hamilton home $237K

That covers a typical Hamilton home, with $150K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,400
Loan $1,170Tax $160Insurance $70

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,770 a month here, $370 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Washington typical property tax (0.81% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,770

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,240
1 bedroom$1,360
2 bedrooms$1,770
3 bedrooms$2,460
4 bedrooms$2,700
12%
of households rent · WA 36%
15
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Hamilton in 2025 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
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new homes permitted in 2025
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2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
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Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

88% of Hamilton households own their home

Half of Hamilton’s homes were built before 1965.

Owners and renters
Own 88%Rent 12%

Washington: 64% own.

1965
typical home built · WA 1985
$1,910
median property tax bill · WA $4,556

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. 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.

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