Best PlacesEverett, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Everett, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Everett ranks 172nd of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 6 minutes away. Its strengths are clean air and transit. The cost shows up in state infrastructure, an overheated housing market, and childcare costs.
The best neighborhoods in Everett
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.
The best areas in Everett
The parts of Everett, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Seattle Hill-Silver Firs & Valley View
Local pay stretches further, incomes run higher, and crime runs lower.
View Ridge-Madison, Boulevard Bluffs & Harborview-Seahurst-Glenhaven
Tree cover is thicker, though streets are more car-dependent.
Bayside & Northwest Everett
More adults hold degrees, though fewer households have young kids.
Lowell
More residents vote, though it is noisier.
Port Gardner & Glacier View
Transit reaches more jobs, though more homes sit empty.
Silver Lake & Pinehurst
Homes cost more.
Delta & Riverside-Everett
Biking is better, though commutes are longer.
Westmont, Everett Mall South & Holly
Scores close to Delta & Riverside-Everett, except that health outcomes score higher here.
Scores across Everett run from about the 16th to the 98th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Everett's strengths and weaknesses
Everett lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Clean air is the standout, in the top 2% of cities. Transit and heat safety follow.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. State infrastructure, an overheated housing market, and childcare costs hold the score down. The detail is below, and the map is where it turns into a choice of neighborhood rather than just a place.
Where Everett ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 98% of cities
- TransitBetter than 93% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than 89% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 85% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 76% of cities
Where Everett ranks low
- State infrastructureBetter than only 5% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 5% of cities
- Cheap childcare$1,516 a month, better than only 13% of cities
- Local economyBetter than only 16% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 23% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Everett
A household needs to earn about $146,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Everett home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $94,656, 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 Everett's effective rate of 0.73%, 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 Everett
Everett runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Everett.
Who works in Everett, and how
Work in Everett centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Everett
Everett has more restaurants and bars per resident than 75% of cities and more parkland per resident than 86% of cities. The coast is about 6 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Everett and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Everett, month by month
Everett sees roughly 134 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 76 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 36. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 42° | 36° |
| April | 59° | 50° | 42° |
| July | 76° | 64° | 55° |
| October | 60° | 52° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Everett
The nearest airport, Seattle Paine Field International, is about 3 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Seattle-Tacoma International, about 33 miles away.
Everett 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 Everett against the other 444 cities.
Who Everett suits
Families
Schools land around the 34th percentile and crime safety beats 55%.
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 13% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Everett
Is Everett a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Everett ranks 172nd of 445 cities. It scores highest on clean air, transit, and heat safety, and lowest on state infrastructure 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 Everett expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $563,892. The overall cost of living runs about 14% above the national average. Set against a $94,656 median income, cost of living beats 37% of cities.
Is Everett safe?
Yes, Everett is safer than 55% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $533 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Everett?
July highs average about 76 degrees, and January highs near 48 with lows near 36. That works out to about 134 pleasant days a year, more than 66% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Everett?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Seattle Hill-Silver Firs & Valley View, View Ridge-Madison, Boulevard Bluffs & Harborview-Seahurst-Glenhaven, and Bayside & Northwest Everett. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Everett good for families?
Schools beat 34% of cities, crime safety beats 55%, and childcare runs $1,516 a month.
Is Everett good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 37% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 85% of cities. About 13% of workers already work from home.
Compare Everett with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Everett. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Everett 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.
Everett detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Everett: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Everett: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Everett: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Everett: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Everett 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.