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A town of 2,526, settled in 1871. A regional job hub with 2,570 jobs.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Brush Prairie grades B overall, 106th of 285 graded towns in Washington. The median household earns $123K. What holds it back is price: homes are expensive, about $844K for a typical one and 8.7 times the Portland metro’s $97K median household income. 13% of residents are under 18 in Brush Prairie, below both the Washington town median (22%) and the median of U.S. towns (22%). Glenwood School is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Brush Prairie beats most towns.
Where Brush Prairie’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Brush Prairie is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,650 in 1990, 2,749 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 2020 and 7 maps from 1897 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Brush Prairie. Close and well known come first.
Big draw37 mi MountainMount St. Helens
15 mi Stadium & arenaModa Center
23 mi WaterfallMultnomah Falls
16 mi Stadium & arenaProvidence Park
15 mi GardenForest Park
16 mi MuseumPittock MansionMount St. Helens: U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region, Public domain · Moda Center: Lugnuts, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Multnomah Falls: John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Providence Park: Pdx.rollingthunder, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Forest Park: EncMstr, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pittock Mansion: PittockBack.jpg: Cacophony derivative work: Tiptoety talk, CC BY-SA 3.0
Brush Prairie is unincorporated, so Clark 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Brush Prairie.
Brush Prairie draws workers from Vancouver and beyond and is healthy by national standards but mid-pack in Washington; it also has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Washington.
2,570 jobs are based in Brush Prairie, 2 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 17.8 minutes, against 26.6 across Washington.
Most working residents leave Brush Prairie for work: only 4% work in town. Brush Prairie’s average trip to work is 18 minutes. The top destinations are Vancouver (28%), Portland (14%) and Battle Ground (5%).
| Brush Prairie | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $123,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 3.3% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.1% | 5% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by the Battle Ground School District. Two of its 5 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Summit View High School, with 319 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurin Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–8 | Grades 5–8 | 745 | – |
| Summit View High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 319 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WA on state tests and graduation
At 8.7 years of the Portland metro’s $97K median household income, the typical home (about $845K) costs more against local pay than in 92% of Washington towns; that ratio is one input to its C− for cost of living.
85% of households own their home in Brush Prairie. The typical Brush Prairie home is worth about $845,000, up 0.5% in a year, 44% above the Washington typical home. The median rent in Brush Prairie is $1,682 a month.
| Brush Prairie | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 85% | 70% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,682 a month | $1,740 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Within Washington it is less healthy than 56% of the 285 graded towns: Washington sets a high bar. Against the 5,328 U.S. towns with household incomes like Brush Prairie’s, it is less healthy than 63%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Brush Prairie beats the Washington average on 10 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 29% of Brush Prairie adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Brush Prairie | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 33% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 72% | 71% | 79% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 16% |
| What stands out | Brush Prairie | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.7% | 8.4% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.5% | 10.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.8% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Brush Prairie has mild winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 80°, January nights drop to 35° and about 1 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
3.6 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Lauretta Norene Forest Preserve, at 30 acres with 1 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
| Brush Prairie | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2.3% | 4% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.5 miles per square mile | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lauretta Norene Forest Preserve | 1 mi | 30 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 60% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
5 within 15 miles of the center of Brush Prairie
About 4 of every 100 Brush Prairie residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
3 notable people were born in Brush Prairie.
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Brush Prairie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,738 at the 2020 census, up from 2,384 at the 2000 census. Based on per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Brush Prairie ranks 57th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked. The area is mostly covered by Battle Ground Public Schools, with a small part going to Hockinson School District.
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4 towns share a border with Brush Prairie.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its B; Battle Ground (B) is closest.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brush Prairie | #106 | B | C− | — | B− | B+ |
| Meadow Glade | — | — | D | — | B− | A− |
| Battle Ground | #99 | B | C− | B | B− | B |
| Barberton | #94 | B | C− | — | B− | A− |
| Hockinson | #41 | B+ | D | — | A | A− |
Meadow Glade has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Brush Prairie, Meadow Glade, Barberton and Hockinson report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Brush Prairie with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Brush Prairie grades B overall, better than 56% of U.S. towns and #106 of 285 in Washington. It grades B+ for health and B− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
3 notable people were born here, including Grant Sitton and Gerry Staley.
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