Best PlacesPasco, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pasco, 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.
Pasco ranks 961st of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Pasco
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.
The best areas in Pasco
The parts of Pasco, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Casa del Sol & Desert Estates
Chapel Hill
Rivers Crossing, Columbia Place & Lovisa Farms
Columbia-Pasco, Stadium Park & Colonial Acres
Sun Willows, Desert Plateau & College View Heights
Sylvester Park, Terrace Heights & Gantenbein
Highland Park Homes
Pasco shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 11% of the country and others in the top 2%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Pasco's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pasco ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 93% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 90% of cities
- Local economyBetter than 89% of cities
- TransitBetter than 89% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 154 pleasant days a year, better than 84% of cities
Where Pasco ranks low
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 4% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 6% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than only 10% of cities
- Tree shadeBetter than only 15% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Pasco
A household needs to earn about $97,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pasco home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $89,156; 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 Pasco's effective rate of 0.72%, 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 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Pasco
Pasco 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 Pasco.
Who works in Pasco, and how
Work in Pasco centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Pasco
Pasco has more restaurants and bars per resident than 67% of cities and more parkland per resident than 82% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Pasco and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Pasco, month by month
Pasco sees roughly 154 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 97 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 34° | 26° |
| April | 70° | 54° | 38° |
| July | 97° | 78° | 57° |
| October | 69° | 53° | 39° |
Flying in and out of Pasco
The nearest airport, Tri-Cities, is about 1 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Seattle-Tacoma International, about 171 miles away.
Pasco 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 Pasco against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Pasco suits
Families
Schools land around the 16th percentile and crime safety beats 67%.
Common questions about living in Pasco
Is Pasco a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pasco ranks 961st of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on low disaster risk, cell coverage, and a strong job market, and lowest on thin health care access and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pasco expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $376,068. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $89,156 median income, cost of living beats 54% of cities.
Is Pasco safe?
Yes, Pasco is safer than 67% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $390 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Pasco?
July highs average about 97 degrees, and January highs near 43 with lows near 26. That works out to about 154 pleasant days a year, more than 84% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Pasco?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Casa del Sol & Desert Estates, Chapel Hill, and Rivers Crossing, Columbia Place & Lovisa Farms. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Pasco with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pasco. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pasco 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.
Pasco detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pasco: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pasco: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pasco: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pasco: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pasco 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.