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The median home value in Bellingham, WA is $672,756 as of 2026-07-31, down 0.36% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$672,756
Year-over-Year
-0.36%
Population
95,717
Bellingham ranks #38 of 118 Washington cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 13.8% above the state's city median of $591,094. It sits in Whatcom County, where the county-wide median is $621,299.
Median household income in Bellingham is $66,755, so the typical home value is about 10.1× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Bellingham police recorded a violent crime rate of 350 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 3,757 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Bellingham, that value is $672,756. That's down 0.36% from a year earlier. It is about 13.8% above the typical Washington city tracked here.
Homes in Bellingham are more expensive than Whatcom County as a whole, where the median is $621,299 — a difference of about 8.3%.
Median household income here is $66,755, so the typical home value is about 10.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Bellingham police reported 350 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 95,717. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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