Kitsap County
Poulsbo, 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 Poulsbo sell for?
The middle house sold for $670,000. That is the median of the 473 arm's-length sales the county recorded in Poulsbo between June 3, 2025 and May 27, 2026.
- Median sale price
- $670,000The middle sale of the twelve months
- Houses sold
- 473Arm's-length sales the county recorded
- Median price per square foot
- $324Of 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 Poulsbo done year by year?
Between 2021 and 2025, the number of Poulsbo 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 Poulsbo number?
Yes, and by enough that the two should be read apart. Over the same twelve months, the middle waterfront sale in Poulsbo was $1,275,000 and the middle inland sale was $664,950.
- Waterfront median
- $1,275,00017 sales · $501 per square foot
- Inland median
- $664,950456 sales · $320 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 Poulsbo houses actually like?
The county holds a dwelling and a recorded lot size on 11,325 parcels under a Poulsbo address. The middle one was built in 1992, has 1,948 square feet of finished living area, and sits on 0.46 acres.
- Median year built
- 1992
- Median finished area
- 1,948square feet
- Median lot
- 0.46acres
- An acre or more
- 4,00935% of the parcels
Of those, 3,951 sit inside the city of Poulsbo itself, 35% of them. The rest carry a Poulsbo 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 Poulsbo?
Poulsbo is a city. Washington State Parks files Kitsap Memorial State Park, on the Hood Canal shoreline, under a Poulsbo address; the Hood Canal Bridge carrying State Route 104 crosses from this side of the water to Jefferson County.
The county files Poulsbo addresses under one ZIP code, 98370. That postal boundary is what this page means by Poulsbo, 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 records its founding by Jorgen Eliason of Fordefjord, Norway, and the Scandinavian settlement that earned it the name Little Norway; its sister cities are Namsos and Kautokeino.
Liberty Bay, the water the town sits on, was called Dog Fish Bay before it was renamed.
Which ferry terminal is nearest Poulsbo?
The Kingston terminal, 6.7 miles away as the map measures. These sail from it:
- Edmonds / Kingston Scheduled crossing 30 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 Poulsbo in?
More than one. Poulsbo addresses fall across 2 districts, so which one a particular house is in is an address-level fact and not a Poulsbo fact.
- North Kitsap School Districtwww.nkschools.org
- Central Kitsap School Districtwww.ckschools.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 Poulsbo?
These, each named as the agency that keeps it names it.
- Kitsap Memorial State ParkWashington State Parks · On the Hood Canal shoreline, at NW Park Street.
- Salsbury Point ParkKitsap County Parks
- Island Lake ParkKitsap County Parks
The list is what the managing agencies file under a Poulsbo 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 Poulsbo itself?
What the town has, each named as its operator names it.
- PoulsboKitsap Regional Library · On NE Lincoln Road.
- Poulsbo MarinaPort of Poulsbo · Permanent, guest and winter moorage, a fuel dock and a public launch. The port dates itself to 1951.
- Maritime Museum, and the Heritage MuseumPoulsbo Historical Society & Museum · Both on Front Street.
What happens in Poulsbo each year?
These recur, and each was checked against its own organiser:
- Viking Festthe third weekend of May each year, run by Viking Fest Corporation.
- Midtsommereach June, run by Poulsbo Leikarringen with the Poulsbo Sons of Norway Vikings. At Muriel Iverson Williams Waterfront Park.
- Poulsbo Farmers MarketSaturdays from late March into December, run by a nonprofit of the same name.
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 Poulsbo?
On the Poulsbo median of $670,000, a 1% listing fee is $6,700. One percent of any price is that price with two digits moved.
The Poulsbo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $670,000 | $6,700 | $20,100 | $13,400 |
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 $7,631 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.