Best PlacesNorth Fort Lewis, WA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around North Fort Lewis, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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North Fort Lewis ranks 39,270th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in North Fort Lewis

Map of the best neighborhoods in the North Fort Lewis area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

North Fort Lewis' strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Population health
Top 1%Short commutes
Top 5%Biking
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare North Fort Lewis with other towns.

Where North Fort Lewis ranks high

  • Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
  • Short commute10.9 minutes each way, better than 99% of towns
  • BikingBetter than 97% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than 94% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than 92% of towns

Where North Fort Lewis ranks low

  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
  • QuietBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Local economyBetter than only 7% of towns

Who lives in North Fort Lewis

North Fort Lewis runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
24
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
0%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.6
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1826%
18 to 3454%
35 to 4915%
50 to 645%
65 and older0%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for North Fort Lewis.

Who works in North Fort Lewis, and how

Work in North Fort Lewis centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
4%
below the national average
Unemployment
12.1%
above the national average
Job growth
−9.2%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade26%
Health care & social18%
Public administration12%
Manufacturing12%
Hospitality & food11%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 74%
  • Work from home 4%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 22%

Life in North Fort Lewis

The coast is about 18 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across North Fort Lewis, which the map shows.

To the coast
18 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in North Fort Lewis, month by month

North Fort Lewis sees roughly 90 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January49°40°33°
April62°49°37°
July81°67°52°
October63°51°41°

Flying in and out of North Fort Lewis

Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 26 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SEA
Seattle-Tacoma International, about 26 miles
Airport size
Large hub
12th-busiest in the US, 172 nonstop destinations
Average drive
37 min
from the area, with no traffic

North Fort Lewis 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 North Fort Lewis against the other 50,332 towns.

Common questions about living in North Fort Lewis

Is North Fort Lewis a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, North Fort Lewis ranks 39,270th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, short commutes, and biking, and lowest on thin health care access and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is North Fort Lewis safe?

North Fort Lewis is safer than 8% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $838 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in North Fort Lewis?

July highs average about 81 degrees, and January highs near 49 with lows near 33. That works out to about 90 pleasant days a year, more than 60% of towns.

Compare North Fort Lewis with other towns

Towns near North Fort Lewis

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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to North Fort Lewis. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in North Fort Lewis 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.

North Fort Lewis detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for North Fort Lewis: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in North Fort Lewis: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of North Fort Lewis: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in North Fort Lewis: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

North Fort Lewis detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. 2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026