Best PlacesEastside Enact, Tacoma, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Eastside Enact, Tacoma, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Eastside Enact, Tacoma ranks 3,895th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Eastside Enact, Tacoma
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.
Eastside Enact, Tacoma's strengths and weaknesses
Where Eastside Enact, Tacoma ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 92% of neighborhoods
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 79% of neighborhoods
- Tree shadeBetter than 76% of neighborhoods
- Low vacancyBetter than 69% of neighborhoods
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 66% of neighborhoods
Where Eastside Enact, Tacoma ranks low
- Short commute34.6 minutes each way, better than only 7% of neighborhoods
- State infrastructureBetter than only 7% of neighborhoods
- Internet speedBetter than only 16% of neighborhoods
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 19% of neighborhoods
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 23% of neighborhoods
What it costs to buy a home in Eastside Enact, Tacoma
A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Eastside Enact, Tacoma home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $87,277, 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 Eastside Enact, Tacoma's effective rate of 0.80%, 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 Eastside Enact, Tacoma
Eastside Enact, Tacoma 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 Eastside Enact, Tacoma.
Who works in Eastside Enact, Tacoma, and how
Work in Eastside Enact, Tacoma centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Eastside Enact, Tacoma
Eastside Enact, Tacoma has more parkland per resident than 88% of neighborhoods. The coast is about 6 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Eastside Enact, Tacoma and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Eastside Enact, Tacoma, month by month
Eastside Enact, Tacoma sees roughly 80 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 32. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 40° | 32° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 37° |
| July | 81° | 67° | 51° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 40° |
Flying in and out of Eastside Enact, Tacoma
Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 17 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.
Eastside Enact, Tacoma 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 Eastside Enact, Tacoma against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.
Who Eastside Enact, Tacoma suits
Common questions about living in Eastside Enact, Tacoma
Is Eastside Enact, Tacoma a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Eastside Enact, Tacoma ranks 3,895th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on clean air, low taxes, and tree cover, and lowest on long commutes and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Eastside Enact, Tacoma expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $416,019. The overall cost of living runs about 12% above the national average. Set against a $87,277 median income, cost of living beats 43% of neighborhoods.
Is Eastside Enact, Tacoma safe?
Eastside Enact, Tacoma is safer than 36% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $747 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Eastside Enact, Tacoma?
July highs average about 81 degrees, and January highs near 49 with lows near 32. That works out to about 80 pleasant days a year, more than 40% of neighborhoods.
Is Eastside Enact, Tacoma good for families?
Schools beat 25% of neighborhoods, crime safety beats 36%, and childcare runs $1,327 a month.
Compare Eastside Enact, Tacoma with other neighborhoods
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Eastside Enact, Tacoma. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Eastside Enact, Tacoma 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.
Eastside Enact, Tacoma detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Eastside Enact, Tacoma: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Eastside Enact, Tacoma: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Eastside Enact, Tacoma: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Eastside Enact, Tacoma: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Eastside Enact, Tacoma 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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