Beacon HillWA
1,804 people live in this town in Washington.
Is Beacon Hill a good place to live?
Beacon Hill’s weakest subject grade is a D for hazard risk. Beacon Hill’s mean commuting time 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.
Natural hazards: high risk in Beacon Hill, mostly inland flooding
Expected damage from storms and floods is higher here than in nearly four fifths of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 38% of Beacon Hill’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 27% to earthquakes. This Washington town has had 2 paid flood insurance claims since 2015.
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
Beacon Hill: 16% of residents live below the poverty line. Just 1% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Jobs based in Beacon Hill grew to 130 in 2023, 51 more than in 2013. For half of commuters, work is under 32 miles away.
| 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
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Beacon Hill is healthier than 51% of U.S. towns
The share of adults in Beacon Hill who have been diagnosed with depression: 28%. 40% of adults have obesity locally.
| 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 $533K
In Beacon Hill, 63% of households live in a home they own.
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 a good place to live?
1,804 people live in this town in Washington.
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−.