Best PlacesToutle, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Toutle, 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.
Toutle ranks 21,859th 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 Toutle
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.
Toutle's strengths and weaknesses
Where Toutle ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 95% of towns
- QuietBetter than 92% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 78% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 75% of towns
Where Toutle ranks low
- Short commute41.4 minutes each way, better than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,375 a month, better than only 7% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 8% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Toutle
A household needs to earn about $89,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Toutle home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $81,013; 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 Toutle's effective rate of 0.57%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Toutle
Toutle runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Toutle.
Who works in Toutle, and how
Work in Toutle centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Toutle
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Toutle.
What the weather is like in Toutle, month by month
Toutle sees roughly 78 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 Toutle
Portland International sits about 52 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 9.1 million passengers in 2025, with 117 nonstop destinations.
Toutle 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 Toutle against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Toutle
Is Toutle a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Toutle ranks 21,859th 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 Toutle expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $352,424. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $81,013 median income, cost of living beats 49% of towns.
Is Toutle safe?
Yes, Toutle is safer than 74% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $305 per resident a year.
Compare Toutle with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Toutle. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Toutle 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.
Toutle detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Toutle: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Toutle: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Toutle: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Toutle: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Toutle 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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