Best PlacesLongbranch, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Longbranch, 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.
Longbranch ranks 11,053rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Longbranch
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.
Longbranch's strengths and weaknesses
Where Longbranch ranks high
- Local economyBetter than 97% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 95% of towns
- Household income$122,581 median, better than 94% of towns
- QuietBetter than 93% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 88% of towns
Where Longbranch ranks low
- Short commute41.5 minutes each way, better than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,327 a month, better than only 8% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 13% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Longbranch
A household needs to earn about $176,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Longbranch home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $122,581, 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 Longbranch's effective rate of 0.79%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Longbranch
Longbranch runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Longbranch.
Who works in Longbranch, and how
Work in Longbranch centers on health care & social and hospitality & food. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 70%
- Work from home 25%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Longbranch
The coast is about 42 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Longbranch, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Longbranch, month by month
Longbranch sees roughly 128 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 79 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 | 60° | 49° | 41° |
| July | 79° | 65° | 54° |
| October | 61° | 52° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Longbranch
Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 27 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.
Longbranch 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 Longbranch against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Longbranch
Is Longbranch a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Longbranch ranks 11,053rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a strong job market, clean air, and high incomes, and lowest on long commutes and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Longbranch expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $673,087. The overall cost of living runs about 14% above the national average. Set against a $122,581 median income, cost of living beats 86% of towns.
Is Longbranch safe?
Longbranch is safer than 51% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $396 per resident a year.
Compare Longbranch with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Longbranch. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Longbranch 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.
Longbranch detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Longbranch: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Longbranch: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Longbranch: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Longbranch: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Longbranch 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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