Auburn, WA real estate
Buying or selling a home, condo, or piece of land in Auburn? Here is what the city's housing actually looks like, and how to reach Isaac Ortiz about it.
Auburn housing snapshot
| Population | 85,455 | |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $510,400 | Owner-reported |
| Median household income | $95,367 | |
| Detached houses | 51.1% | Share of all housing units |
| Townhomes / attached | 6.8% | |
| In buildings of 2+ units | 35.4% | Condos and apartments alike |
| Manufactured homes | 6.6% | |
| Owner-occupied | 61.4% | |
| Median year built | 1991 | |
| Vacancy rate | 4.5% |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2019–2023). Tables B25077, B01003, B25003, B25024, B25035, B19013, B25002. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
What the numbers mean for a buyer or seller
The median owner-reported home value in Auburn is $510,400.
That is 37% below the King County median of $811,200. Median household income is $95,367, 22% below the county's $122,148.
Auburn's housing is genuinely mixed - 51.1% detached houses, 35.4% in multi-unit buildings, and 6.8% attached single-family such as townhomes. Both house and attached-home stock exist here in real numbers.
61.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied - a fairly even ownership-to-rental split.
Half of Auburn's homes were built in 1991 or earlier, putting half the stock in the 1980s-90s era or before.
Auburn is 85,455 people, with enough turnover that recent comparable sales are rarely the constraint. Vacancy sits at 4.5%.
6.6% of housing units are manufactured or mobile homes, which typically signals available acreage and a live land market in and around Auburn.
Selling in Auburn
Auburn runs close to an even split - 61.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied - so your buyer could as easily be a family moving in as someone buying to rent it out. Pricing and presentation have to work for both.
For pricing context, the midpoint of Auburn homes is $510,400, and the area sits about 0 miles off the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma spine - usually the first thing a buyer's agent checks when they push back on a list price.
Isaac will tell you what your home is actually likely to bring in Auburn and what, if anything, is worth doing first. If the honest answer is that this is not your year to sell, he will say that too.
Talk to Isaac Ortiz about Auburn
Isaac Ortiz is a licensed real estate broker with Compass, working King County and the surrounding Puget Sound area. Se habla español. Send a note and he will reply personally.
Email Isaac.Ortiz@nwret.com.