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Housing in Quilcene

A typical Quilcene home is worth about $460,000

Up 0.6% in a year, 22% below the Washington typical home.

Typical home value
$460K
▲ 0.6% in a year · WA $592K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,190
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,364
WA $4,556

What kind of housing town is Quilcene?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Quilcene

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$387,000
Typical Quilcene home $460K

That’s $73K short of a typical Quilcene home.

The typical home, each month
$2,720
Loan $2,280Tax $310Insurance $130

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,190 a month here, $1,530 less 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.

Price trend

Up 10.8% in five years

About the same pace as Washington (11.1%).

QuilceneWashington
$200K$250K$300K$350K$400K$450K$500K$550K$600K$650K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryQuilceneWashington
2017$241,000$326,000
2018$261,000$362,000
2019$273,000$390,000
2020$294,000$413,000
2021$357,000$471,000
2022$435,000$554,000
2023$447,000$572,000
2024$430,000$582,000
2025$452,000$605,000
2026$458,000$601,000
August 2026$460,000$592,000
Then & now

A typical Quilcene home worth $230K in September 2016 is worth about $460K today.

+$229K
+0.6%
past year
+10.8%
past 5 years
+99.5%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,190

Renters already here pay a median of $1,078, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$970
1 bedroom$1,010
2 bedrooms$1,190
3 bedrooms$1,660
4 bedrooms$2,000
19%
of households rent · WA 36%
22
renter households
$1,078
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

1 of Quilcene’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Quilcene’s homes were built before 1956.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 81%Rent 19%

Washington: 64% own.

1956
typical home built · WA 1985
$1,364
median property tax bill · WA $4,556
7%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes
Historic houses in Quilcene

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

On the market in Quilcene

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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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. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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