Best PlacesOysterville, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Oysterville, 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.
Oysterville ranks 17,680th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Oysterville
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.
Oysterville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Oysterville ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 98% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- TransitBetter than 89% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 88% of towns
Where Oysterville ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Oysterville
A household needs to earn about $100,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Oysterville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $80,208, 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 Oysterville's effective rate of 0.72%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Oysterville
Oysterville 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 Oysterville.
Who works in Oysterville, and how
Work in Oysterville centers on education and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 65%
- Work from home 32%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Oysterville
The coast is about 2 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Oysterville, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Oysterville, month by month
Oysterville sees roughly 115 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 70 degrees. January highs sit near 52, with lows near 37. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 52° | 44° | 37° |
| April | 59° | 49° | 40° |
| July | 70° | 61° | 53° |
| October | 63° | 54° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Oysterville
Portland International sits about 97 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.
Oysterville 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 Oysterville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Oysterville
Is Oysterville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Oysterville ranks 17,680th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, health care access, and quiet, 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 Oysterville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $385,900. The overall cost of living runs about 2% below the national average. Set against a $80,208 median income, cost of living beats 58% of towns.
Is Oysterville safe?
Oysterville is safer than 52% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $394 per resident a year.
Compare Oysterville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Oysterville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Oysterville 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.
Oysterville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Oysterville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Oysterville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Oysterville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Oysterville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Oysterville 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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