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Wilkeson, WA Real Estate

Wilkeson is a town in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 395 at the 2000 census.

Wilkeson was officially incorporated on July 24, 1909 and boasts the oldest operating elementary school building in Washington state.

"[In] his 1869 report of the Cascades mountain range, Frank [Wilkeson]'s father, Samuel, wrote: 'these forests of trees ” so enchain the senses of the grand and so enchant the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am loathe to depart ” surpassing the woods of all the rest of the globe...' Like many writers of that time, Samuel indulged in hyperbole, but his love of the Cascades seems very genuine. Sometime in the period of 1876-78, four large coal veins were discovered and mined near a region known as Carbonado in the Cascade foothills. A small village formed and was named for Samuel after NP extended a rail line there from Tacoma in 1877. He was appointed secretary of the NP board in March 1869. The area became well known for its coal coking ovens as well as the natural sandstone formations that were the source of material for facing the new capitol in Olympia. At one time the town of Wilkeson had a population of about 3,000, but today it hovers around 400. Many of the same principals of the Wilkeson operation built the coking ovens at Cokedale, about 80 miles north in Skagit County, which led to the creation of the town of Sedro, now Sedro-Woolley. As far as we can determine, neither Frank nor any member of his family actually ever lived in the namesake town, but his brother, Samuel G. Wilkeson, invested substantially in coal companies that operated there...

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$399,900 Enumclaw, WA Single Family 4/2 3100 10.9
$225,000 Enumclaw, WA Single Family 4/1 1430 10.9
$217,000 Buckley, WA Single Family 2/1 1056 13.5
$385,400 Buckley, WA Single Family 4/2 1798 13.5
$220,000 Buckley, WA Mobile Home 3/2 1400 13.5
$289,000 Black Diamond, WA Single Family 0/0 0 17.1
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$215,000 Sumner, WA Single Family 2/1 1001 18.6
$294,950 Sumner, WA Single Family 0/0 0 18.6
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$308,590 Bonney Lake, WA Single Family 3/2 2001 18.6
$225,000 Sumner, WA Single Family 4/1 1500 18.6
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$260,000 Bonney Lake, WA Single Family 3/2 1497 18.6
$85,000 Sumner, WA Acreage/Land 0/0 0 18.6
$329,950 Edgewood, WA Single Family 3/2 1500 19.3
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$529,000 Edgewood, WA Farm/Ranch 3/3 2550 19.3
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$378,900 Auburn, WA Single Family 3/2 2207 19.4
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$344,990 Auburn, WA Single Family 4/2 1720 19.4
$92,500 Auburn, WA Condo/Townhome 1/1 580 19.4
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$329,500 Auburn, WA Single Family 3/2 2170 19.4
$283,000 Auburn, WA Single Family 4/2 2300 19.4
$299,950 Auburn, WA Single Family 0/0 0 19.4
$270,000 Maple Valley, WA Single Family 0/0 0 22.2
$334,800 Maple Valley, WA Single Family 3/2 1700 22.2
$305,000 Maple Valley, WA Single Family 0/0 0 22.2
$348,000 Maple Valley, WA Single Family 0/0 0 22.2
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Wilkeson, WA information

State:Washington
Country:Pierce
Area Code:360
FIPS:53053
TimeZone:PST
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Wilkeson, WA Neighborhood Info

 

Natl. average

Wilkeson, WA

Population: 293,655,400398
Household size:
Persons per household
2.602.8

Housing

Home appreciation:
Most recent 12 months
9.8%15.6%
House purchase cost:
Median sales value
$217,200$234,300
Commute time:
in minutes
27.437.3

Economy

Cost of Living index:
higher rate = higher costs
100.0103.9
Recent Job Growth:
Most recent 12 months
1.4%3.7%
Unemployment Rate: 4.6%5.6%
Future Job Growth:
projected job growth to 2010
11.9%9.5%
Income Taxes:
highest marginal tax bracket
5.22%0%
Sales Taxes:
total local, county, state sales tax
6.0%7.8%

Education

Pupil/teacher ratio:
number of students per teacher
15.919.6
Graduation rate:
percent graduated from high school
79.6%75.3%
School spending:
total dollars for each student
$6,058$5783.0000
College grads-adv. deg.:
percent with graduate and prof. degrees
7.2%2.5%
College grads-4 yr.:
percent graduated from 4 yr. colleges
15.2%5.4%

Crime

Property crime index:
1 (least) to 10 (most)
33
Violent crime index:
1 (least) to 10 (most)
35

Health

Doctors per capita:
M.D.s per 10,000 population
169.7224.6
Air quality index:
higher number = better air quality
48.020
Health costs index:
higher rate = higher costs
100.0126.3
Watershed quality index:
higher=better (not drinking water)
55.060

Climate

Altitude:
in feet
1,058331
Snowfall:
inches annually
24.037
Rainfall:
inches annually
39.077
Precipitation days:
days annually with some precipitation
112158
Summer temperature:
average high temp in July (deg F)
86.981.4
Winter temperature:
average low temp in January (deg F)
21.725
Sunny days:
days annually with few clouds
205137

Cities within 10 miles of Wilkeson, Washington

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Wilkeson, ZIP Codes

98396,