Best PlacesNapavine, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Napavine, 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.
Napavine ranks 16,928th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on few empty homes by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Napavine
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.
Napavine's strengths and weaknesses
Where Napavine ranks high
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 91% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 88% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Household income$93,485 median, better than 80% of towns
Where Napavine ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Napavine
A household needs to earn about $110,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Napavine home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $93,485, 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 Napavine's effective rate of 0.58%, 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 Napavine
Napavine runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Napavine.
Who works in Napavine, and how
Work in Napavine centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Napavine
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Napavine.
What the weather is like in Napavine, month by month
Napavine sees roughly 113 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 37. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 41° | 37° |
| April | 61° | 50° | 41° |
| July | 81° | 66° | 54° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Napavine
Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 65 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.
Napavine 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 Napavine against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Napavine
Is Napavine a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Napavine ranks 16,928th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on few empty homes, clean air, and low crime, and lowest on an overheated housing market and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Napavine expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $433,113. The overall cost of living runs about 4% above the national average. Set against a $93,485 median income, cost of living beats 61% of towns.
Is Napavine safe?
Yes, Napavine is safer than 88% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $251 per resident a year.
Compare Napavine with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Napavine. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Napavine 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.
Napavine detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Napavine: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Napavine: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Napavine: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Napavine: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Napavine 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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