Best PlacesAberdeen Gardens, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Aberdeen Gardens, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Aberdeen Gardens ranks 17,586th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Aberdeen Gardens
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Aberdeen Gardens' strengths and weaknesses
Where Aberdeen Gardens ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 95% of towns
- QuietBetter than 94% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 87% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 86% of towns
Where Aberdeen Gardens ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Aberdeen Gardens
A household needs to earn about $87,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Aberdeen Gardens home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $78,399; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Aberdeen Gardens' effective rate of 0.82%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Aberdeen Gardens
Aberdeen Gardens runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Aberdeen Gardens.
Who works in Aberdeen Gardens, and how
Work in Aberdeen Gardens centers on health care & social and public administration. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 93%
- Work from home 4%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Aberdeen Gardens
The coast is about 22 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Aberdeen Gardens, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Aberdeen Gardens, month by month
Aberdeen Gardens sees roughly 112 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 70 degrees. January highs sit near 50, with lows near 38. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 50° | 43° | 38° |
| April | 58° | 49° | 41° |
| July | 70° | 61° | 54° |
| October | 62° | 53° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Aberdeen Gardens
Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 73 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.
Aberdeen Gardens measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Aberdeen Gardens against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Aberdeen Gardens
Is Aberdeen Gardens a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Aberdeen Gardens ranks 17,586th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, quiet, and low crime, and lowest on childcare costs and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Aberdeen Gardens expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $330,427. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $78,399 median income, cost of living beats 64% of towns.
Is Aberdeen Gardens safe?
Yes, Aberdeen Gardens is safer than 87% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $255 per resident a year.
Compare Aberdeen Gardens with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Aberdeen Gardens. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Aberdeen Gardens represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Aberdeen Gardens detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Aberdeen Gardens: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Aberdeen Gardens: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Aberdeen Gardens: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Aberdeen Gardens: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Aberdeen Gardens detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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