CanterwoodWA
A town of 2,971.
Is Canterwood a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Canterwood grades B+ overall, ranked 70th of 285 in Washington. Its schools outperform 88% of the state's. It is healthier than 88% of U.S. towns. The trade-off is money: homes are expensive, about $892K for a typical one and 7.7 times the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income. Canterwood’s concentration of trails is 2.9 miles per square mile, above both Washington’s towns (0.8) and U.S. towns (0.4).
Canterwood has grown 16% from 2010 to 2020
3,079 counted in 2010 and 3,572 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Canterwood grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Canterwood is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Space Needle and 133 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Canterwood. Close and well known come first.
Big draw21 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
20 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
Big draw32 mi National ParkOlympic National Park3.6M visitors a year
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 · T-Mobile Park: MyName (Cacophony), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Olympic National Park: Wsiegmund, CC BY 2.5 · Seattle Underground: Mark Hursh, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Canterwood: who provides what
Canterwood is unincorporated, so Pierce 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 Canterwood.
Canterwood has cooler summers than nearly all U.S. towns and owes part of its health edge to its incomes, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Washington.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Canterwood earns an A for health
Against the 2,187 U.S. towns with household incomes like Canterwood’s, it is less healthy than 62%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
The share of adults in Canterwood who sleep under 7 hours: 32%. Among adults here, 8.2% smoke cigarettes and 15% get no exercise outside work.
| Canterwood | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.2% | 11% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 25% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 71% | 79% |
| What stands out | Canterwood | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.2% | 8.4% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.4% | 10.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.2% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Canterwood’s workers commute out
The average commute for its 1,419 working residents takes 34.6 minutes, against 26.6 across Washington. 28.6% of workers work from home, against 19.8% across Washington.
In Canterwood, the average trip to work is 35 minutes, above both the Washington town median (27 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Most people who work leave Canterwood to do it: just 1% work in town. Since 2013, Canterwood has added 229 jobs, to 491 in 2023. The median household income here is $160,000.
| Canterwood | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $160,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.2% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 5% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Natural hazards: high risk in Canterwood, mostly earthquakes
69% of Canterwood’s expected losses from natural hazards come from earthquakes, followed by inland flooding at 27%. Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 73% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Expect mild winters and pleasant summers in Canterwood
July afternoons average 76.6°, cooler than in 97% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.9°.
Snowfall is close to zero. In Canterwood, the January low is 36°F.
| Canterwood | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 77°F | 77°F | 85°F |
| January low | 36°F | 35°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Canterwood stands out in Washington and nationally, with more of its households who live in a home they own
At 7.7 years of the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 83% of Washington towns; that ratio is one input to its C− for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $7,202, against $4,556 across Washington, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The median sale price was $999,000 in May 2026. A home in Canterwood typically sold within 48 days of listing. In Canterwood, the typical sale closed at 99.2% of the list price.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Canterwood
Colleges nearby
10 within 15 miles of the center of Canterwood
About 3 of every 100 Canterwood residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
99% of working residents leave Canterwood for work
Where Canterwood’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Canterwood
CDP in Washington, United States
Canterwood is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Pierce County, Washington. As of the 2020 census, Canterwood had a population of 3,572.
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- Area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 335 ft
- Area code
- 253
Canterwood’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Canterwood.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canterwood | #70 | B+ | C− | — | A | A |
| Gig Harbor | #102 | B | D | C− | A | A |
| Purdy | — | — | C | — | A | A |
Purdy has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Canterwood and Purdy report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Canterwood with a neighbor →
Questions about Canterwood
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Canterwood, WA a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Canterwood grades B+ overall, better than 65% of U.S. towns and #70 of 285 in Washington. It grades A for health and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Canterwood, WA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $892,000, 52% above 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 C−.