Best PlacesAmanda Park, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Amanda Park, 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.
Amanda Park ranks 45,981st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and internet speeds rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Amanda Park
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.
Amanda Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Amanda Park ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 97% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Short commute17.8 minutes each way, better than 94% of towns
- TransitBetter than 90% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
Where Amanda Park ranks low
- Internet speedBetter than only 1% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 3% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 6% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Amanda Park
A household needs to earn about $30,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Amanda Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $51,632, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Amanda Park's effective rate of 0.47%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Amanda Park
Amanda Park runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Amanda Park.
Who works in Amanda Park, and how
Work in Amanda Park centers on agriculture & forestry and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 60%
- Work from home 29%
- Transit, walk, or bike 11%
Life in Amanda Park
The coast is about 51 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Amanda Park, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Amanda Park, month by month
Amanda Park sees roughly 100 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 77 degrees. January highs sit near 46, with lows near 36. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 46° | 40° | 36° |
| April | 59° | 47° | 40° |
| July | 77° | 62° | 52° |
| October | 60° | 50° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Amanda Park
The nearest airport, Friday Harbor, is about 78 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Seattle-Tacoma International, about 81 miles away.
Amanda Park 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 Amanda Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Amanda Park
Is Amanda Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Amanda Park ranks 45,981st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, quiet, and short commutes, and lowest on internet speeds and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Amanda Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $120,029. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $51,632 median income, cost of living beats 6% of towns.
Is Amanda Park safe?
Amanda Park is safer than 3% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,092 per resident a year.
Compare Amanda Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Amanda Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Amanda Park 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.
Amanda Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Amanda Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Amanda Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Amanda Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Amanda Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Amanda Park 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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