WA · City overview

Seattle housing market intelligence

Fixture-backed housing signal profile for Seattle, WA — rent, prices, supply, jobs, and climate.

Daytime view of the South Lake Union area and the downtown Seattle skyline.

SeattleWA

Image: Wikimedia Commons · Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0

Local visual context

Exterior view of the Pike Place Market entrance on Western Avenue in Seattle, Washington. — Image: Wikimedia Commons · Rootology · CC BY-SA 3.0

Raw source values

Direct values from the underlying public datasets, before any Housing BuildDesignHub scoring.

Total population
749,256 people
Updated 2018-2022
Median household income
$116,068
Updated 2018-2022
Median gross rent
$1,879
Updated 2018-2022
Median home value (owner-occupied)
$821,300
Updated 2018-2022
Total housing units
366,920 units
Updated 2018-2022
House Price Index (all-transactions-nsa, 1991-Q1 = 100)
543
Updated 2024-Q4
Residential permits (trailing 12 months)
20,230 units
Updated 2024-12

Sources

American Community Survey
U.S. Census Bureau
fixturestale
ACS 5-Year Estimates
Confidence
high
Cadence
annually
Release
2023-12-07
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
House Price Index
Federal Housing Finance Agency
fixturestale
FHFA HPI — All-Transactions (NSA), MSA
Confidence
high
Cadence
quarterly
Release
2025-02-25
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
Building Permits Survey
U.S. Census Bureau
fixturestale
Census BPS — Monthly metro permits
Confidence
high
Cadence
monthly
Release
2025-02-19
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
FEMA National Risk Index
Federal Emergency Management Agency
fixturestale
National Risk Index — county-level
Confidence
high
Cadence
annually
Release
2023-03-23
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
fixturestale
Local Area Unemployment Statistics — county
Confidence
high
Cadence
monthly
Release
2025-03-12
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
BEA Regional Economic Accounts
Bureau of Economic Analysis
fixturefresh
Regional Economic Accounts — MSA
Confidence
high
Cadence
annually
Release
2024-11-14
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗

Computed signals

Updated 2026-05-19

58/100

Affordability85 / 100
Supply92 / 100
Price momentum67 / 100
Job market59 / 100
Economic strength80 / 100
Climate risk93 / 100

Computed from raw source values — see methodology

Data freshness

Static source fixture

fixtureStale

Retrieved: 2026-05-19
Latest source release: 2025-03-12

Static source fixtures bundled with the repo — not live. Replace with scheduled-ETL artifacts to flip provenance to live.

Data integrity notice

Housing BuildDesignHub currently uses source-attributed static fixtures to validate the data model and UI. Metrics are not live and should not be treated as investment, legal, financial, or property-level advice.

Data export

Static fixture data · not live data

JSON profile or one-row-per-metric CSV. See /api-docs.

Deeper reports

See methodology for how each signal is computed, or data status for current ETL coverage.