Best PlacesBangor Base, WA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Bangor Base, 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.

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Bangor Base ranks 10,247th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Bangor Base

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Bangor Base area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Bangor Base's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Population health
Top 1%Fast internet
Top 3%Short commutes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Bangor Base with other towns.

Where Bangor Base ranks high

  • Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
  • Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
  • Short commute14.1 minutes each way, better than 98% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than 96% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than 96% of towns

Where Bangor Base ranks low

  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 2% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$1,327 a month, better than only 8% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 14% of towns

Who lives in Bangor Base

Bangor Base runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
21
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
0%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.4
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1830%
18 to 3455%
35 to 4911%
50 to 644%
65 and older0%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bangor Base.

Who works in Bangor Base, and how

Work in Bangor Base centers on retail trade and public administration. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
6%
below the national average
Unemployment
2.9%
below the national average
Job growth
+9.3%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade32%
Public administration16%
Hospitality & food12%
Health care & social10%
Construction8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 55%
  • Work from home 6%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 39%

Life in Bangor Base

The coast is about 22 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Bangor Base, which the map shows.

To the coast
22 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Bangor Base, month by month

Bangor Base sees roughly 100 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January47°40°33°
April61°48°37°
July81°65°50°
October62°51°41°

Flying in and out of Bangor Base

The nearest airport, Boeing Field/King County International, is about 22 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Seattle-Tacoma International, about 25 miles away.

Nearest airport
BFI
Boeing Field/King County International, about 22 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
360th-busiest in the US, 8 nonstop destinations
Average drive
32 min
from the area, with no traffic

Bangor Base 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 Bangor Base against the other 50,332 towns.

Common questions about living in Bangor Base

Is Bangor Base a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bangor Base ranks 10,247th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, fast internet, and short commutes, and lowest on thin health care access and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Bangor Base safe?

Bangor Base is safer than 45% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $503 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Bangor Base?

July highs average about 81 degrees, and January highs near 47 with lows near 33. That works out to about 100 pleasant days a year, more than 68% of towns.

Compare Bangor Base with other towns

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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bangor Base. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bangor Base 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.

Bangor Base detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Bangor Base: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Bangor Base: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Bangor Base: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Bangor Base: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Bangor Base detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. 2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026