Cascade ValleyWA
A town of 4,609.
Is Cascade Valley a good place to live?
Cascade Valley earns a D−, 271st of 285 graded towns in Washington, mostly because of incomes and schools. The median household income is $61K, and 13% of residents live below the poverty line. Its public schools trail 75% of Washington towns on state tests and graduation. What it does well: natural-hazard risk is low. Cascade Valley’s July high is 90°F, where Washington’s towns sit at 77°F and U.S. towns at 85°F. On health, just 33 of Washington’s 397 towns do worse. Homes are expensive, about for a typical one and times the Moses Lake area’s $73K median household income.
What makes Cascade Valley stand out
Where Cascade Valley beats most towns.
Cascade Valley has grown 93% from 2010 to 2020
2,246 counted in 2010 and 4,332 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Cascade Valley grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Cascade Valley is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Cascade Valley: who provides what
Cascade Valley is unincorporated, so Grant 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 Cascade Valley.
Cascade Valley carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Washington (mostly inland flooding), is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has milder winter nights than most of the country, though not than most of Washington.
Inland flooding leads a low hazard risk in Cascade Valley
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 93% of Washington towns, with expected losses of about $208 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Cascade Valley’s FEMA risk score is 21 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
About two in five of Cascade Valley’s working residents commute to Moses Lake
Cascade Valley has 384 jobs for its 1,674 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Cascade Valley for work: only 1% work in town. The average trip to work in Cascade Valley is 22 minutes. Jobs based in Cascade Valley grew to 384 in 2023, 237 more than in 2013.
| Cascade Valley | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $61,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 5% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Cascade Valley is less healthy than 69% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,113 U.S. towns with household incomes like Cascade Valley’s, it is less healthy than 52%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
Cascade Valley beats the Washington average on 0 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 21. 18% of Cascade Valley adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Cascade Valley | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 7.8% | 8.1% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 17% | 19% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 71% | 79% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Cascade Valley | WA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 17.5% | 8.4% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 16% | 10.2% |
| More adults in fair or poor health | 24.7% | 16.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Cascade Valley has four seasons and hot summers
January nights average 24°: milder than most of the country, but colder than 85% of Washington places with climate records; July afternoons average 89.6°.
Cascade Valley has chilly winters and warm summers, with very little rain.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Cascade Valley sell for about $180K
71.8% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 49.9% across Washington.
80% of households own their home in Cascade Valley.
| Cascade Valley | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 80% | 70% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,311 a month | $1,740 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Cascade Valley
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Cascade Valley
About 2 of every 100 Cascade Valley residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
99% of working residents leave Cascade Valley for work
Where Cascade Valley’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Cascade Valley
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Cascade Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Grant County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census, Cascade Valley had a population of 4,332.
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- Area
- 5.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,060 ft
- Area code
- 509
Cascade Valley’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Cascade Valley.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade Valley | #271 | D− | D | — | C | C |
| Moses Lake | #258 | D | C− | D | C | B |
| Moses Lake North | #269 | D | C+ | — | C | C− |
Cascade Valley and Moses Lake North report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Cascade Valley with a neighbor →
Questions about Cascade Valley
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cascade Valley, WA a good place to live?
Cascade Valley grades D− overall, better than 5% of U.S. towns and #271 of 285 in Washington. It grades C for health and C for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.