Beacon HillWA
A town of 1,804.
Is Beacon Hill a good place to live?
Beacon Hill’s weakest subject grade is a D for hazard risk. Beacon Hill’s average trip to work is 18 minutes, below both the Washington town median (27 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. Beacon Hill has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Beacon Hill for work
Where Beacon Hill’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Beacon Hill grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Beacon Hill is from typical.
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Moving to Beacon Hill: who provides what
Beacon Hill is unincorporated, so Cowlitz 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 Beacon Hill.
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Beacon Hill
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 79% of U.S. communities. Since 2015, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Beacon Hill.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Beacon Hill’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Beacon Hill for work: only 1% work in town. 16% of residents live below the poverty line in Beacon Hill, against 7.9% in Washington’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Jobs based in Beacon Hill grew to 130 in 2023, 51 more than in 2013.
| Beacon Hill | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 16% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 4.9% | 8% |
| Median household income | $87,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and pleasant summers in Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill has mild winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. Beacon Hill’s July high is 79°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Beacon Hill is healthier than 51% of U.S. towns
Beacon Hill beats the Washington average on 0 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 17. 40% of adults have obesity in Beacon Hill.
| Beacon Hill | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 33% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 71% | 71% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| What stands out | Beacon Hill | WA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 6.9% | 5.1% |
| More adults with arthritis | 31.6% | 24.4% |
| More adults with obesity | 39.5% | 30.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Beacon Hill sell for about $570K
63% of Beacon Hill households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Beacon Hill
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Beacon Hill
About 5 of every 100 Beacon Hill residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Washington.
About Beacon Hill
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Beacon Hill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 2,211. During the 2010 census, Beacon Hill was part of the West Side Highway CDP. The CDP is in the western part of the county and is bordered to the south and west by Longview Heights, to the northeast by Lexington, and to the east by the Cowlitz River. State Route 411 runs through the east side of the community, following the Cowlitz. It leads south 3 miles (5 km) to Longview and north 9 miles (14 km) to Castle Rock.
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- Area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 262 ft
Beacon Hill’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Beacon Hill.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Hill | — | — | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Longview Heights | #279 | D− | D | — | C+ | B |
| Lexington | #253 | D | C− | — | C+ | B |
Beacon Hill has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Beacon Hill, Longview Heights and Lexington report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Beacon Hill with a neighbor →
Questions about Beacon Hill
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Beacon Hill, WA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $398,000, 32% below the Washington typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.