The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 98243 sells for about $700,000, or $350 per square foot.
Prices are up +2.5% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 45 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $2,100 a month.
ZIP 98243 — Deer Harbor
The housing market in ZIP 98243 shows stable conditions with modest year-over-year price appreciation. Low inventory levels continue to support current pricing, though buyer activity remains tempered by broader economic factors.
Median prices moved up 2.5% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 45 days on market with 3.2 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
15% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 99.2% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.8% · poverty 5.2% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Researched annual trajectory for this ZIP, from published historical series
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 5.8%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Median annual property tax paid on this ZIP's residential parcels
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 5.6%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
versus the prior ACS vintage
net influx — more people moved in than out
ZCTA 98243, Snohomish County WA
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this ZIP — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Data retrieved from data.census.gov ZCTA-level tables.
- Saanich Commonwealth Place4.419.3 mi
- Oak Bay Recreation Centre4.419.5 mi
- Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse4.617.9 mi
- Saanich Fairgrounds4.319.7 mi
- Fireside Grill4.419.5 mi
- Lime Kiln Point State Park4.89.8 mi
- Moran State Park4.88.7 mi
- Cattle Point Lighthouse4.812.2 mi
- San Juan County Park4.88.9 mi
- The Whale Museum4.56.1 mi
- Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea4.517.7 mi
- Roche Harbor Resort4.76.6 mi
- BC Aviation Museum4.818.8 mi
- Orcas Island Pottery4.94.6 mi
- The Whale Museum4.56.1 mi
- Lime Kiln Point State Park4.89.8 mi
- Moran State Park4.88.7 mi
- San Juan County Park4.88.9 mi
- Spencer Spit State Park4.79.1 mi
- Obstruction Pass State Park4.88.4 mi
- Oak Bay Marina4.419.2 mi
- Skyline Marine Center4.617.4 mi
- Roche Harbor Resort4.76.6 mi
- Poets Cove Resort & Spa4.113.1 mi
- Royal Victoria Yacht Club4.417.8 mi
- Buck Bay Shellfish Farm4.78.2 mi
- Victoria International Airport4.319.2 mi
- Bellingham International Airport4.524.7 mi
- Victoria Harbour (Camel Point) Heliport4.622.4 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.