Best PlacesWawawai, WA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Wawawai, 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.
Wawawai ranks 16,892nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and biking ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Wawawai
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.
Wawawai's strengths and weaknesses
Where Wawawai ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 91% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 89% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 82% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 78% of towns
Where Wawawai ranks low
- BikingBetter than only 3% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 4% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 12% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Wawawai
A household needs to earn about $93,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Wawawai home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $87,506; 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 Wawawai's effective rate of 0.80%, 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 Wawawai
Wawawai runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Wawawai.
Who works in Wawawai, and how
Work in Wawawai centers on education and agriculture & forestry. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Wawawai
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Wawawai.
What the weather is like in Wawawai, month by month
Wawawai sees roughly 105 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 39, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 39° | 32° | 26° |
| April | 59° | 46° | 35° |
| July | 87° | 70° | 50° |
| October | 62° | 49° | 37° |
Flying in and out of Wawawai
The nearest airport, Pullman/Moscow Regional, is about 14 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field, about 221 miles away.
Wawawai 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 Wawawai against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Wawawai
Is Wawawai a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Wawawai ranks 16,892nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, population health, and low taxes, and lowest on biking and internet speeds. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Wawawai expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $354,713. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $87,506 median income, cost of living beats 68% of towns.
Is Wawawai safe?
Wawawai is safer than 52% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $400 per resident a year.
Compare Wawawai with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Wawawai. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Wawawai 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.
Wawawai detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Wawawai: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Wawawai: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Wawawai: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Wawawai: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Wawawai 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.