Best PlacesClaquato, WA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Claquato, 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.

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Claquato ranks 15,958th 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.

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The best neighborhoods in Claquato

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Claquato 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.

Claquato's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%Clean air
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Claquato with other towns.

Where Claquato ranks high

  • Air qualityBetter than 92% of towns
  • Household income$109,328 median, better than 90% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 87% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than 87% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns

Where Claquato ranks low

  • Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 15% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Claquato

A household needs to earn about $133,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Claquato home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $109,328, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$133,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,103
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $519,610 home
Median rent
$931
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,649
Property tax$281
Homeowners insurance$173

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 Claquato's effective rate of 0.65%, 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.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Claquato

Claquato runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
43
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
20%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.9
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1829%
18 to 3417%
35 to 4917%
50 to 6417%
65 and older20%

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


Who works in Claquato, and how

Work in Claquato centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
16%
about the national average
Unemployment
2.3%
below the national average
Job growth
−1.8%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social18%
Retail trade16%
Public administration12%
Other services9%
Education7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 80%
  • Work from home 16%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Claquato

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Claquato.


What the weather is like in Claquato, month by month

Claquato sees roughly 115 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 37. 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
January48°41°37°
April61°50°41°
July81°66°54°
October63°51°44°

Flying in and out of Claquato

Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 64 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SEA
Seattle-Tacoma International, about 64 miles
Airport size
Large hub
12th-busiest in the US, 172 nonstop destinations
Average drive
92 min
from the area, with no traffic

Claquato 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 Claquato against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Claquato

Is Claquato a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Claquato ranks 15,958th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, high incomes, and an educated workforce, 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 Claquato expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $519,610. The overall cost of living runs about 4% above the national average. Set against a $109,328 median income, cost of living beats 82% of towns.

Is Claquato safe?

Claquato is safer than 50% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $449 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

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

Claquato detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Claquato 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. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.