Best PlacesSkamokawa, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Skamokawa, 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.
Skamokawa ranks 45,381st 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 Skamokawa
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.
Skamokawa's strengths and weaknesses
Where Skamokawa ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 95% of towns
- QuietBetter than 87% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 109 pleasant days a year, better than 74% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 72% of towns
Where Skamokawa ranks low
- Short commute54.4 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 2% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Skamokawa
A household needs to earn about $76,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Skamokawa home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $62,653, 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 Skamokawa's effective rate of 0.58%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Skamokawa
Skamokawa 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 Skamokawa.
Who works in Skamokawa, and how
Work in Skamokawa centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 18%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Skamokawa
The coast is about 24 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Skamokawa, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Skamokawa, month by month
Skamokawa sees roughly 109 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 Skamokawa
Portland International sits about 64 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.
Skamokawa 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 Skamokawa against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Skamokawa
Is Skamokawa a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Skamokawa ranks 45,381st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, quiet, and low taxes, and lowest on long commutes and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Skamokawa expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $300,000. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $62,653 median income, cost of living beats 10% of towns.
Is Skamokawa safe?
Skamokawa is safer than 39% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $448 per resident a year.
Compare Skamokawa with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Skamokawa. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Skamokawa 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.
Skamokawa detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Skamokawa: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Skamokawa: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Skamokawa: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Skamokawa: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Skamokawa 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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