Kitsap County
Bainbridge Island, by the county's numbers.
Everything below about what houses here sell for is computed from Kitsap County's own filings when this page loads, and everything about the place itself is cited to the agency that publishes it. Where the record is too thin to say something, this page says that instead of estimating.
The sale figures on this page are computed from Kitsap County's own recorded sales each time it is loaded, and are dated in the sections that state them. The places, boundaries and sailings were read in August 2026 from Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District; City of Bainbridge Island; Washington State Ferries; U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb ZIP Code Tabulation Areas and Urban Growth Areas (2020 Census tabulation areas, ACS 2025 service). All of it changes; check anything here against the source before you rely on it.
What did houses in Bainbridge Island sell for?
The middle house sold for $1,233,000. That is the median of the 357 arm's-length sales the county recorded in Bainbridge Island between May 30, 2025 and May 27, 2026.
- Median sale price
- $1,233,000The middle sale of the twelve months
- Houses sold
- 357Arm's-length sales the county recorded
- Median price per square foot
- $543Of finished living area
A median is the middle sale, not the average: half the houses sold for more and half for less, and one very large sale cannot drag it the way it drags an average. Only sales the Kitsap County Assessor coded as valid arm's-length transfers of a parcel with a house on it are counted, which is the same rule the sold record applies to the whole county.
The county's file runs to May 29, 2026, and the twelve months below are measured back from that last recorded sale rather than from today. County sales are filed weeks after they close, so a window ending today would always end in a stretch of calendar the record has not reached.
What has Bainbridge Island done year by year?
Between 2021 and 2025, the number of Bainbridge Island houses sold fell and what the middle one sold for rose.
Every year on that chart carries at least 10 recorded sales; a community with a thinner year is shown no chart at all rather than a line drawn across a gap. The years are the county's own, by the date it recorded each sale.
Does the shoreline change the Bainbridge Island number?
Yes, and by enough that the two should be read apart. Over the same twelve months, the middle waterfront sale in Bainbridge Island was $2,341,250 and the middle inland sale was $1,189,000.
- Waterfront median
- $2,341,25040 sales · $970 per square foot
- Inland median
- $1,189,000317 sales · $528 per square foot
The waterfront coding is the Assessor's own, not ours. Both sides cleared 10 sales in the window, which is the only reason two medians appear here instead of one; where a community's shoreline is thinner this page prints the count and stops.
The rate per square foot is the figure that survives a difference in house size, and on this coastline the waterfront houses are not the same size as the inland ones. The sold record takes the same split across the whole county, and down to the Assessor's bank classes.
What are Bainbridge Island houses actually like?
The county holds a dwelling and a recorded lot size on 9,243 parcels under a Bainbridge Island address. The middle one was built in 1989, has 2,296 square feet of finished living area, and sits on 0.66 acres.
- Median year built
- 1989
- Median finished area
- 2,296square feet
- Median lot
- 0.66acres
- An acre or more
- 3,18834% of the parcels
Of those, 9,243 sit inside the city of Bainbridge Island itself, 100% of them. The rest carry a Bainbridge Island address and are in unincorporated Kitsap County, which decides which rules a sale answers to and which office issues a permit. It is the single most useful thing to be clear about before reading any other figure on this page.
This is the building stock rather than the market: it counts every parcel the county has a dwelling on file for, rather than the ones that sold. It does not move when the market does, which is what makes it useful for a community where few houses change hands in a year.
Where is Bainbridge Island?
Bainbridge Island is an island, and the whole of it is one city. It joins the rest of the peninsula by the Agate Pass Bridge, which carries State Route 305 across its north end, and Seattle by ferry from the terminal at Olympic Drive SE.
The county files Bainbridge Island addresses under one ZIP code, 98110. That postal boundary is what this page means by Bainbridge Island, and it is what a reader means by it too. It is not the Assessor's neighbourhood labels, which are things like Beach Drive and McCormick Village, and it is not the city limits.
The Census Bureau maps an urban growth area of this name here. A growth area is where the county has planned for building to go, which is a fact about the ground rather than about anybody on it, and it is worth knowing before a buyer's agent asks what can be built next door.
The city's own record has Winslow incorporating in 1947, with the rest of the island annexed in 1991 to make the single city that covers it today.
The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, near the historic Eagledale ferry landing, is a unit of the Minidoka National Historic Site and is managed by the National Park Service.
Which ferry terminal is nearest Bainbridge Island?
The Bainbridge Island terminal, 2.1 miles away as the map measures. These sail from it:
- Seattle / Bainbridge Island Scheduled crossing 35 minutes.
About that distance. It is a straight line between two mapped points, not a drive. Roads on this peninsula bend around a great deal of water, so the drive is longer than the line, often considerably. Read it as which terminal is nearest, not as how long it takes to get there.
Why it belongs on a page about selling: every visit to the house that comes from across the water arrives on a boat. A showing, the inspector, the appraiser, a contractor giving a bid, each one is scheduled around a sailing, so grouping them into a few windows usually beats scattering them across a week. That is what the sailing times change about selling a house here.
Terminal and sailing details read from the Washington State Department of Transportation's ferries service on 2026-08-10. Schedules change seasonally; check WSDOT's own timetable before you plan around one.
Which school district is Bainbridge Island in?
One: Bainbridge Island School District. Every part of Bainbridge Island's postal geography falls inside it.
- Bainbridge Island School Districtbisd303.org
Boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau, which maintains them with the districts themselves. Which district a specific address is in, and which school a child at it would attend, are two different questions: attendance areas are drawn by each district's own board and can be redrawn yearly. Confirm with the district before anyone relies on it. A free Home Record resolves the district for one parcel rather than for a postal boundary.
What public ground is there around Bainbridge Island?
These, each named as the agency that keeps it names it.
- Fay Bainbridge ParkBainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District
- Fort Ward ParkBainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District
- Waterfront Park and City DockCity of Bainbridge Island · Five and a half acres on Eagle Harbor.
The list is what the managing agencies file under a Bainbridge Island address, rather than everything a person could drive to. Each entry names the agency that keeps it, so any of them can be checked against that agency's own list.
What is in Bainbridge Island itself?
What the town has, each named as its operator names it.
- Bainbridge IslandKitsap Regional Library · The island's own branch.
- Bainbridge Island Museum of Arta nonprofit museum · A short walk from the ferry terminal.
- Bainbridge Performing Artsa nonprofit theatre · In Winslow.
- Bloedel Reservea nonprofit reserve · Forest and garden grounds open to visitors.
What happens in Bainbridge Island each year?
These recur, and each was checked against its own organiser:
- Grand Old Fourth of Julyeach Fourth of July, run by Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce. The chamber records it as having run continuously since 1967.
- Bainbridge Island Farmers MarketSaturdays from April into November, run by Bainbridge Island Farmers' Market Association. At Town Square by City Hall. The association dates itself to 1990.
No dates appear here on purpose. Each organiser publishes its own current dates, and a date copied onto this page would be wrong by the following year. Anything we could not confirm was still running was left off, including two well-known Kitsap events that have lapsed or paused.
What would a 1% listing fee come to in Bainbridge Island?
On the Bainbridge Island median of $1,233,000, a 1% listing fee is $12,330. One percent of any price is that price with two digits moved.
The Bainbridge Island median recorded in the twelve months to May 27, 2026, and arithmetic on it. The right-hand columns are arithmetic on the price, not a claim about what any other firm charges.
| Sale price | Listing fee at 1% | At 3% | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,233,000 | $12,330 | $36,990 | $24,660 |
About the comparison rate. The second column is a worked example at 3%, not a statement about what any other firm charges. Commission rates are negotiable between a firm and its client and are not set by law or by any trade association; every firm sets its own, and so does Lorraine.
A listing fee is one line of a sale. The seller also owes Washington's graduated state excise tax, which is $14,837.40 on a sale at that median before the local excise tax the city or county adds, plus title, escrow and the loan payoff. Those are set out one at a time in what it costs to sell a house in Washington, and the fee arithmetic itself in what a 1% listing fee comes to.
The median is the middle of what sold. It is not a valuation of any particular house, including yours; what your own house is worth comes out of the sales actually nearest it, which is what a Home Record assembles.