Best PlacesLyle, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lyle, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Lyle ranks 45,373rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Lyle
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.
Lyle's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lyle ranks high
- Local economyBetter than 92% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 91% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 87% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 131 pleasant days a year, better than 86% of towns
Where Lyle ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
- Household income$42,418 median, better than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lyle
A household needs to earn about $116,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lyle home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $42,418, 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 Lyle's effective rate of 0.51%, 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 Lyle
Lyle runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Lyle.
Who works in Lyle, and how
Work in Lyle centers on construction and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 64%
- Work from home 30%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Lyle
Lyle has more restaurants and bars per resident than 95% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Lyle and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Lyle, month by month
Lyle sees roughly 131 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 36° | 30° |
| April | 68° | 54° | 40° |
| July | 93° | 77° | 61° |
| October | 69° | 54° | 42° |
Flying in and out of Lyle
Portland International sits about 65 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.
Lyle 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 Lyle against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lyle
Is Lyle a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lyle ranks 45,373rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a strong job market, civic engagement, and clean air, and lowest on noise and the cost of living against local pay. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Lyle expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $464,073. The overall cost of living runs about 2% above the national average. Set against a $42,418 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Lyle safe?
Lyle is safer than 28% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $518 per resident a year.
Compare Lyle with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lyle. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lyle 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.
Lyle detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lyle: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lyle: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lyle: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lyle: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lyle 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.