Home prices in Sammamish run 198% above the national median: $1,250,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $220,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 5.7x.
Property taxes in Sammamish run 0.9% of assessed value, below the 1.1% national average. On the median home, that's $11,250 a year, or $938 added to the monthly payment.
Washington charges no state income tax. Every dollar of the $220,000 median household income here converts more directly into covering the $7,940/month payment.
Sammamish's cost of living index is 184, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Sammamish's median home price runs 60% higher than nearby Seattle: $780,000 there versus $1,250,000 here.