Bangor BaseWA
The town, home to 6,112 people, lies in Washington.
Is Bangor Base a good place to live?
Health is where it shines: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 87% of the country. With a B overall, Bangor Base is better than 60% of U.S. towns and ranks 91st of 285 in Washington. Walkability is another plus (A): it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 95% of U.S. towns. The catch is cost of living (D−): the typical home is worth about , years of the Bremerton metro’s $104K median household income. The town’s average commute is 14 minutes, where Washington’s towns sit at 27 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Only 10 of Washington’s 397 towns score lower on the outdoors. Its going rate for rent is $2,353 a month, above both Washington’s towns ($1,737 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Only 2 of the 285 Washington towns we compare have a lower age of the median resident than Bangor Base.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · USGS PAD-US.
What makes Bangor Base stand out
Where Bangor Base beats most towns.
Jobs vs. working residents
Every workday, about 1,393 people come to Bangor Base for work
Where Bangor Base’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Bangor Base grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Bangor Base is from typical.
Its grades run from A for walkability (better than 95% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 1%), so the B overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Space Needle and 136 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bangor Base. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
Big draw19 mi National ParkOlympic National Park3.6M visitors a year
20 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
20 mi Ancient siteSeattle UndergroundPhoto credits
Space Needle: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Climate Pledge Arena: Sea Cow, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lumen Field: "Smart Destinations", GoSeattleCard.com, and Go Seattle Card Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Olympic National Park: Wsiegmund, CC BY 2.5 · T-Mobile Park: MyName (Cacophony), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Seattle Underground: Mark Hursh, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Bangor Base: who provides what
Bangor Base is unincorporated, so Kitsap County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Bangor Base.
Bangor Base has less cancer than most of Washington, draws workers from Silverdale and beyond and has cooler summers than nearly all U.S. towns.
On state tests, Bangor Base’s schools beat 75% of Washington districts
Its public schools are run by the Central Kitsap School District. Enrollment at Bangor Base’s public school: 397 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cougar Valley ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 397 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WA on state tests and graduation
Most working residents commute out of Bangor Base
1,425 jobs are based in Bangor Base, 2.1 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 14.2 minutes, against 26.6 across Washington.
Just 5% of Bangor Base’s working residents have a job in town. 5.6% of Bangor Base workers work remotely from home. Also worth knowing: since 2013, Bangor Base has added 98 jobs, to 1,425 in 2023. The top destinations are Silverdale (9%), Seattle (8%) and Bremerton (6%).
| Bangor Base | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 14 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 5.6% | 15% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 5.4% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $80,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fewer of Bangor Base’s adults have diabetes than in the typical Washington or U.S. town
Its widest gap with Washington is cancer: 1.6% of its 3,950 adults have had cancer, against 7.9% statewide.
Among 285 Washington towns, just one has a lower share of adults who have high blood pressure than Bangor Base. 28% of adults have obesity in the town. On the CDC’s 31 measures, Bangor Base is ahead of Washington on 11 and behind on 11.
| Bangor Base | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 2.5% | 9.8% | 12% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 17% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 31% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 57% | 71% | 79% |
| What stands out | Bangor Base | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 1.6% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 1.2% | 5.4% |
| More binge drinkers | 26.3% | 16.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Bangor Base, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
July afternoons average 75.4°, cooler than in 98% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.3°.
In Bangor Base, the typical July afternoon high is 75°F. About 3 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Bangor Base | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 75°F | 77°F | 85°F |
| January low | 35°F | 35°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Bangor Base faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by earthquakes
Of the losses FEMA expects in Bangor Base, 87% come from earthquakes and 9% from inland flooding. Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in two thirds of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0% of Bangor Base is conserved land
Just 0 of its 7,068 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Bangor Base itself; its outdoors grade is D.
Bangor Base’s concentration of trails stands at 0.2 miles per square mile. 1.9 miles of trail.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Bangor Base
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Bangor Base
About 5 of every 100 Bangor Base residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Washington.
About Bangor Base
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Bangor Base is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, within U.S. Naval Base Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula. Its population was 5,482 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 11 sq mi
- Elevation
- 394 ft
Bangor Base’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Bangor Base.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangor Base | #91 | B | D− | — | A− | A |
| Silverdale | #78 | B | D | — | B+ | A |
Bangor Base and Silverdale report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Bangor Base with a neighbor →
Questions about Bangor Base
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Bangor Base, WA a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Bangor Base grades B overall, better than 60% of U.S. towns and #91 of 285 in Washington. It grades A for health and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.