Best PlacesDeming, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Deming, 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.
Deming ranks 29,454th 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 Deming
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.
Deming's strengths and weaknesses
Where Deming ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 97% of towns
- TransitBetter than 93% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 83% of towns
- QuietBetter than 80% of towns
Where Deming ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,516 a month, better than only 2% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 19% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Deming
A household needs to earn about $119,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Deming home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $74,663, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Deming'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.
Who lives in Deming
Deming 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 Deming.
Who works in Deming, and how
Work in Deming centers on construction and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 79%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 10%
Life in Deming
The coast is about 32 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Deming, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Deming, month by month
Deming sees roughly 113 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 76 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 40° | 33° |
| April | 60° | 50° | 40° |
| July | 76° | 65° | 54° |
| October | 61° | 51° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Deming
The nearest airport, Bellingham International, is about 18 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Seattle-Tacoma International, about 95 miles away.
Deming 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 Deming against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Deming
Is Deming a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Deming ranks 29,454th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, transit, and low taxes, and lowest on childcare costs and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Deming expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $463,153. The overall cost of living runs about 17% above the national average. Set against a $74,663 median income, cost of living beats 19% of towns.
Is Deming safe?
Deming is safer than 22% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $569 per resident a year.
Compare Deming with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Deming. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Deming 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.
Deming detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Deming: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Deming: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Deming: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Deming: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Deming 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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