Silverdale, by the county's numbers.

What did houses in Silverdale sell for?

The middle house sold for $595,000. That is the median of the 176 arm's-length sales the county recorded in Silverdale between May 30, 2025 and May 20, 2026.

Median sale price

$595,000The middle sale of the twelve months

Houses sold

176Arm's-length sales the county recorded

Median price per square foot

$303Of 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 Silverdale done year by year?

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 Silverdale number?

3 of the 176 Silverdale sales in this window were coded waterfront by the Assessor. That is too few to publish a waterfront median beside the inland one, so the figure above counts both together.

Saying so matters more than it looks. A median that mixes the shoreline with the streets behind it describes neither, and a seller inland who reads a number lifted by a handful of waterfront sales as theirs has been given the wrong picture of their own house.

Whether a particular parcel is coded waterfront, and who owns the tideland below it, is on that parcel's own record. The sold record splits the whole county both ways.

What are Silverdale houses actually like?

The county holds a dwelling and a recorded lot size on 5,859 parcels under a Silverdale address. The middle one was built in 1991, has 1,990 square feet of finished living area, and sits on 0.29 acres.

Median year built

1991

Median finished area

1,990square feet

Median lot

0.29acres

An acre or more

1,26122% of the parcels

All of them are in unincorporated Kitsap County: there is no city of Silverdale for a house to be inside. That decides which office holds the permit file and which rules a sale answers to.

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 Silverdale?

Silverdale is unincorporated. It is one of the two communities on this site that has no city of its own and a designated urban growth area all the same, which is the arrangement that puts county rather than city rules on a Silverdale sale.

The county files Silverdale addresses under one ZIP code, 98383. That postal boundary is what this page means by Silverdale, 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.

Which ferry terminal is nearest Silverdale?

The Bremerton terminal, 8.3 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 Silverdale in?

One: Central Kitsap School District. Every part of Silverdale's postal geography falls inside it.

• 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 Silverdale?

These, each named as the agency that keeps it names it.

• Silverdale Waterfront ParkKitsap County Parks · Two acres on NW Bryon Street, with saltwater beach access.
• Newberry Hill Heritage ParkKitsap County Parks
• Anderson Landing PreserveKitsap County Parks
• Old Mill ParkKitsap County Parks

The list is what the managing agencies file under a Silverdale 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 Silverdale itself?

What the town has, each named as its operator names it.

• SilverdaleKitsap Regional Library · On NW Anderson Hill Road.
• Port of Silverdalea Washington public port district · A pier and moorage floats, a boat ramp, and access to the Clear Creek Trail.
• Kitsap County Fairgrounds and Events CenterKitsap County

What happens in Silverdale each year?

These recur, and each was checked against its own organiser:

• Whaling Daysthe last weekend of July, run by a nonprofit planning committee. In Old Town Silverdale.
• Kitsap County Fair and Stampedein late summer, run by Kitsap Fair & Stampede Association. At the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.

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 Silverdale?

On the Silverdale median of $595,000, a 1% listing fee is $5,950. One percent of any price is that price with two digits moved.

The Silverdale median recorded in the twelve months to May 20, 2026, and arithmetic on it. The right-hand columns are arithmetic on the price, not a claim about what any other firm charges.

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 $6,671 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.