Best PlacesQueets, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Queets, 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.
Queets ranks 45,060th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on quiet by a wide margin, and internet speeds rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Queets
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.
Queets' strengths and weaknesses
Where Queets ranks high
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 96% of towns
- Short commute16.7 minutes each way, better than 95% of towns
- BikingBetter than 92% of towns
- TransitBetter than 89% of towns
Where Queets ranks low
- Internet speedBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 3% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Queets
A household needs to earn about $29,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Queets home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $50,000, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Queets' effective rate of 0.55%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Queets
Queets 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 Queets.
Who works in Queets, and how
Work in Queets centers on agriculture & forestry and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 42%
- Work from home 48%
- Transit, walk, or bike 10%
Life in Queets
The coast is about 2 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Queets, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Queets, month by month
Queets sees roughly 118 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 77 degrees. January highs sit near 46, with lows near 36. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 46° | 40° | 36° |
| April | 59° | 47° | 40° |
| July | 77° | 62° | 52° |
| October | 60° | 50° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Queets
The nearest airport, Friday Harbor, is about 91 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Seattle-Tacoma International, about 94 miles away.
Queets 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 Queets against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Queets
Is Queets a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Queets ranks 45,060th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on quiet, clean air, and short commutes, and lowest on internet speeds and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Queets expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $116,700. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $50,000 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Queets safe?
Queets is safer than 1% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,412 per resident a year.
Compare Queets with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Queets. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Queets 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.
Queets detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Queets: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Queets: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Queets: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Queets: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Queets 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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