Best PlacesCarbonado, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Carbonado, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Carbonado ranks 6,467th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Carbonado
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.
Carbonado's strengths and weaknesses
Where Carbonado ranks high
- Household income$150,803 median, better than 97% of towns
- BikingBetter than 95% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 94% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 89% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 87% of towns
Where Carbonado ranks low
- Short commute42.2 minutes each way, better than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,327 a month, better than only 8% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 8% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Carbonado
A household needs to earn about $138,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Carbonado home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $150,803, 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 Carbonado's effective rate of 0.83%, 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 Carbonado
Carbonado runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Carbonado.
Who works in Carbonado, and how
Work in Carbonado centers on construction and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Carbonado
The coast is about 36 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Carbonado, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Carbonado, month by month
Carbonado sees roughly 87 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 35. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 41° | 35° |
| April | 61° | 49° | 40° |
| July | 82° | 67° | 54° |
| October | 63° | 52° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Carbonado
Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 28 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.
Carbonado 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 Carbonado against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Carbonado
Is Carbonado a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Carbonado ranks 6,467th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, biking, and what local pay buys, and lowest on long commutes and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Carbonado expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $526,696. The overall cost of living runs about 18% above the national average. Set against a $150,803 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Carbonado safe?
Yes, Carbonado is safer than 73% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $368 per resident a year.
Compare Carbonado with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Carbonado. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Carbonado 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.
Carbonado detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Carbonado: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Carbonado: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Carbonado: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Carbonado: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Carbonado 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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