Best PlacesOrting, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Orting, 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.
Orting ranks 5,050th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Orting
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.
Orting's strengths and weaknesses
Where Orting ranks high
- Household income$129,411 median, better than 95% of towns
- BikingBetter than 95% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 90% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 87% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 87% of towns
Where Orting ranks low
- Short commute41.0 minutes each way, better than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,327 a month, better than only 8% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Orting
A household needs to earn about $133,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Orting home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $129,411; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Orting's effective rate of 0.83%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Orting
Orting 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 Orting.
Who works in Orting, and how
Work in Orting centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Orting
The coast is about 25 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Orting, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Orting, month by month
Orting sees roughly 99 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 35. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 41° | 35° |
| April | 61° | 49° | 40° |
| July | 82° | 67° | 54° |
| October | 63° | 52° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Orting
Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 25 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.
Orting 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 Orting against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Orting
Is Orting a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Orting ranks 5,050th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, biking, and what local pay buys, 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 Orting expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $506,607. The overall cost of living runs about 8% above the national average. Set against a $129,411 median income, cost of living beats 90% of towns.
Is Orting safe?
Yes, Orting is safer than 87% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $271 per resident a year.
Compare Orting with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Orting. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Orting 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.
Orting detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Orting: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Orting: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Orting: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Orting: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Orting 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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