Best PlacesSightly, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Sightly, 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.
Sightly ranks 21,064th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Sightly
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.
Sightly's strengths and weaknesses
Where Sightly ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 95% of towns
- QuietBetter than 92% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 79% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 79% of towns
Where Sightly ranks low
- Short commute42.2 minutes each way, better than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Sightly
A household needs to earn about $101,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Sightly home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $81,819, 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 Sightly's effective rate of 0.60%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Sightly
Sightly runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Sightly.
Who works in Sightly, and how
Work in Sightly centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Sightly
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Sightly.
What the weather is like in Sightly, month by month
Sightly sees roughly 74 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 | 64° | 51° | 40° |
| July | 82° | 66° | 55° |
| October | 65° | 53° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Sightly
Portland International sits about 49 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.
Sightly 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 Sightly against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Sightly
Is Sightly a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Sightly ranks 21,064th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, quiet, and low taxes, 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 Sightly expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $395,922. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $81,819 median income, cost of living beats 50% of towns.
Is Sightly safe?
Yes, Sightly is safer than 71% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $317 per resident a year.
Compare Sightly with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Sightly. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Sightly 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.
Sightly detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Sightly: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Sightly: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Sightly: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Sightly: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Sightly 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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