Kitsap County
Port Orchard, 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 Washington State Parks; Kitsap County Parks; 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 Port Orchard sell for?
The middle house sold for $549,000. That is the median of the 938 arm's-length sales the county recorded in Port Orchard between May 30, 2025 and May 29, 2026.
- Median sale price
- $549,000The middle sale of the twelve months
- Houses sold
- 938Arm's-length sales the county recorded
- Median price per square foot
- $313Of 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 Port Orchard done year by year?
Between 2021 and 2025, the number of Port Orchard 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 Port Orchard number?
Yes, and by enough that the two should be read apart. Over the same twelve months, the middle waterfront sale in Port Orchard was $740,000 and the middle inland sale was $545,000.
- Waterfront median
- $740,00028 sales · $494 per square foot
- Inland median
- $545,000910 sales · $311 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 Port Orchard houses actually like?
The county holds a dwelling and a recorded lot size on 22,276 parcels under a Port Orchard address. The middle one was built in 1990, has 1,805 square feet of finished living area, and sits on 0.34 acres.
- Median year built
- 1990
- Median finished area
- 1,805square feet
- Median lot
- 0.34acres
- An acre or more
- 5,69926% of the parcels
Of those, 5,658 sit inside the city of Port Orchard itself, 25% of them. The rest carry a Port Orchard 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 Port Orchard?
Port Orchard is a city, and like Bremerton the postal name reaches well beyond the city limits. Washington State Parks and Kitsap County Parks each file a large park under a Port Orchard address.
The county files Port Orchard addresses under 2 ZIP codes: 98367, 98366. That postal boundary is what this page means by Port Orchard: not the Assessor's neighbourhood labels, and 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 it incorporating in 1890 as the Town of Sidney, the first town in Kitsap County to be both platted and incorporated.
The name comes from Port Orchard Strait, which the city records as named for Harry Masterman Orchard, and voters made the town the county seat in 1892.
Which ferry terminal is nearest Port Orchard?
The Bremerton terminal, 7.2 miles away as the map measures. These sail from it:
- Seattle / Bremerton Scheduled crossing 60 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 Port Orchard in?
One: South Kitsap School District. Every part of Port Orchard's postal geography falls inside it.
- South Kitsap School Districtskschools.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 Port Orchard?
These, each named as the agency that keeps it names it.
- Manchester State ParkWashington State Parks · The agency records over three thousand four hundred feet of saltwater shoreline, near Rich Passage.
- Banner Forest Heritage ParkKitsap County Parks · Six hundred and thirty-six acres of walking and equestrian trails, at Banner Road SE.
The list is what the managing agencies file under a Port Orchard 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 Port Orchard itself?
What the town has, each named as its operator names it.
- Port OrchardKitsap Regional Library
- ManchesterKitsap Regional Library · On East Main Street.
- Port Orchard MarinaPort of Bremerton · Guest moorage and a fuel dock.
- Sidney Museum, and the Log Cabin MuseumSidney Museum & Arts Association · Both on Sidney Avenue.
What happens in Port Orchard each year?
These recur, and each was checked against its own organiser:
- Fathoms O' Funthrough the summer, with a coronation each March, run by an all-volunteer nonprofit of the same name. A grand parade, fireworks over Sinclair Inlet, and Concerts by the Bay.
- Port Orchard Farmers MarketSaturdays from April to October, and Wednesday afternoons in high summer, run by a nonprofit of the same name. The market dates itself to 1978.
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 Port Orchard?
On the Port Orchard median of $549,000, a 1% listing fee is $5,490. One percent of any price is that price with two digits moved.
The Port Orchard median recorded in the twelve months to May 29, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $549,000 | $5,490 | $16,470 | $10,980 |
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 $6,082.20 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.