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The median home value in Tumwater, WA is $529,264 as of 2026-07-31, up 0.86% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$529,264
Year-over-Year
+0.86%
Population
27,617
Tumwater ranks #76 of 118 Washington cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 10.5% below the state's city median of $591,094. It sits in Thurston County, where the county-wide median is $532,113.
Median household income in Tumwater is $95,212, so the typical home value is about 5.6× 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).
Tumwater police recorded a violent crime rate of 196 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,078 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 Tumwater, that value is $529,264. That's up 0.86% from a year earlier. It is about 10.5% below the typical Washington city tracked here.
Homes in Tumwater are cheaper than Thurston County as a whole, where the median is $532,113 — a difference of about 0.5%.
Median household income here is $95,212, so the typical home value is about 5.6× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Tumwater police reported 196 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 27,617. 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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