Best PlacesFive Corners, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Five Corners, 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.
Five Corners ranks 7,417th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Five Corners
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.
Five Corners' strengths and weaknesses
Where Five Corners ranks high
- BikingBetter than 96% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 95% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 92% of towns
- TransitBetter than 91% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 91% of towns
Where Five Corners ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 7% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 13% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 24% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Five Corners
A household needs to earn about $125,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Five Corners home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $106,703, 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 Five Corners' effective rate of 0.77%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Five Corners
Five Corners 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 Five Corners.
Who works in Five Corners, and how
Work in Five Corners centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Five Corners
Five Corners has more parkland per resident than 82% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Five Corners and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Five Corners, month by month
Five Corners sees roughly 114 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 34. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 41° | 34° |
| April | 65° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 85° | 70° | 57° |
| October | 67° | 55° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Five Corners
Portland International sits about 7 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.
Five Corners 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 Five Corners against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Five Corners suits
Families
Schools land around the 46th percentile and crime safety beats 65%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 77% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 14% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Five Corners
Is Five Corners a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Five Corners ranks 7,417th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, cell coverage, and clean air, 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 Five Corners expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $478,544. The overall cost of living runs about 5% above the national average. Set against a $106,703 median income, cost of living beats 77% of towns.
Is Five Corners safe?
Yes, Five Corners is safer than 65% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $370 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Five Corners?
July highs average about 85 degrees, and January highs near 49 with lows near 34. That works out to about 114 pleasant days a year, more than 76% of towns.
Is Five Corners good for families?
Schools beat 46% of towns, crime safety beats 65%, and childcare runs $1,375 a month.
Compare Five Corners with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Five Corners. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Five Corners 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.
Five Corners detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Five Corners: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Five Corners: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Five Corners: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Five Corners: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Five Corners 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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