Best PlacesWoodbrook, Lakewood, WA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Woodbrook, Lakewood, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Woodbrook, Lakewood ranks 5,404th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Woodbrook, Lakewood

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Woodbrook, Lakewood area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Woodbrook, Lakewood's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%Clean air
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Woodbrook, Lakewood with other neighborhoods.

Where Woodbrook, Lakewood ranks high

  • Air qualityBetter than 93% of neighborhoods
  • Low property taxBetter than 83% of neighborhoods
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 79% of neighborhoods
  • Short commute21.1 minutes each way, better than 73% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 71% of neighborhoods

Where Woodbrook, Lakewood ranks low

  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 7% of neighborhoods

Who lives in Woodbrook, Lakewood

Woodbrook, Lakewood runs younger than the country.

Median age
25
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
1%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.5
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1833%
18 to 3438%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6411%
65 and older1%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Woodbrook, Lakewood.

Who works in Woodbrook, Lakewood, and how

Work in Woodbrook, Lakewood centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
3%
below the national average
Unemployment
13.4%
above the national average
Job growth
+12.9%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Education17%
Health care & social15%
Retail trade13%
Public administration10%
Construction9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 90%
  • Work from home 3%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 7%

Life in Woodbrook, Lakewood

The coast is about 12 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Woodbrook, Lakewood, which the map shows.

To the coast
12 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Woodbrook, Lakewood, month by month

Woodbrook, Lakewood sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 32. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January49°40°32°
April62°49°37°
July81°67°51°
October63°51°40°

Flying in and out of Woodbrook, Lakewood

Seattle-Tacoma International sits about 25 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.4 million passengers in 2025, with 172 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SEA
Seattle-Tacoma International, about 25 miles
Airport size
Large hub
12th-busiest in the US, 172 nonstop destinations
Average drive
35 min
from the area, with no traffic

Woodbrook, Lakewood 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 Woodbrook, Lakewood against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.

Common questions about living in Woodbrook, Lakewood

Is Woodbrook, Lakewood a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Woodbrook, Lakewood ranks 5,404th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on clean air, low property taxes, and low taxes, and lowest on an overheated housing market and the cost of living against local pay. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Woodbrook, Lakewood safe?

Woodbrook, Lakewood is safer than 22% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $899 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Woodbrook, Lakewood?

July highs average about 81 degrees, and January highs near 49 with lows near 32. That works out to about 81 pleasant days a year, more than 41% of neighborhoods.

Compare Woodbrook, Lakewood with other neighborhoods

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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Woodbrook, Lakewood. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Woodbrook, Lakewood 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.

Woodbrook, Lakewood detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Woodbrook, Lakewood: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Woodbrook, Lakewood: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Woodbrook, Lakewood: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Woodbrook, Lakewood: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Woodbrook, Lakewood detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. 2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026