Best PlacesDupont, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Dupont, 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.
Dupont ranks 5,791st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Dupont
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.
Dupont's strengths and weaknesses
Where Dupont ranks high
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 96% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 95% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 94% of towns
Where Dupont ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 6% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,327 a month, better than only 8% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Dupont
A household needs to earn about $150,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Dupont home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $124,021, 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 Dupont's effective rate of 0.78%, 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 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Dupont
Dupont runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Dupont.
Who works in Dupont, and how
Work in Dupont centers on health care & social and public administration. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Dupont
Dupont has more parkland per resident than 89% of towns. The coast is about 19 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Dupont and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Dupont, month by month
Dupont sees roughly 90 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 40° | 33° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 37° |
| July | 81° | 67° | 52° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Dupont
Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 29 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Dupont
Schools across Dupont average a B−, better than 57% of towns.
Top middle schools
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolA · 60% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Dupont school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Dupont 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 Dupont against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Dupont
Is Dupont a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Dupont ranks 5,791st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, biking, and an educated workforce, and lowest on noise and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Dupont expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $575,853. The overall cost of living runs about 6% above the national average. Set against a $124,021 median income, cost of living beats 90% of towns.
Is Dupont safe?
Dupont is safer than 44% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $504 per resident a year.
Compare Dupont with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Dupont. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Dupont 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.
Dupont detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Dupont: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Dupont: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Dupont: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Dupont: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Dupont 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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