Five CornersWA
A town of 21,194.
Is Five Corners a good place to live?
Five Corners grades B− overall, 143rd among Washington's 285 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. The median household earns $106K and it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 77% of U.S. towns. On the other side, the typical home is worth about $460K, 4.7 years of the Portland metro’s $97K median household income. Five Corners’ going rate for rent is $2,111 a month, where Washington’s towns sit at $1,737 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. The biggest place to walk is Orchards Community Park, 39 acres with 1.9 miles of trail.
What makes Five Corners stand out
Where Five Corners beats most towns.
Five Corners has grown 16% from 2010 to 2020
18,159 counted in 2010 and 20,973 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Five Corners grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Five Corners is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Mount St. Helens and 161 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Five Corners. Close and well known come first.
Big draw40 mi MountainMount St. Helens
12 mi Stadium & arenaModa Center
13 mi Stadium & arenaProvidence Park
23 mi WaterfallMultnomah Falls
13 mi City parkForest Park
13 mi MuseumPittock MansionPhoto credits
Mount St. Helens: U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region, Public domain · Moda Center: Lugnuts, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Providence Park: Pdx.rollingthunder, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Multnomah Falls: John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Forest Park: EncMstr, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pittock Mansion: PittockBack.jpg: Cacophony derivative work: Tiptoety talk, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Five Corners: who provides what
Five Corners 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Five Corners.
Five Corners sends many workers across the state line to Portland and is healthy by national standards but behind most towns in Washington.
Most of Five Corners’ workers head elsewhere: there are 0.3 jobs for each of them
23% of working residents cross a state line to work, Portland among the top destinations. Jobs based here grew from 1,758 in 2013 to 3,023.
Most people who work leave Five Corners to do it: just 2% work in town. Since 2013, Five Corners has added 1,265 jobs, to 3,023 in 2023. The median commute is under 9 miles. The top destinations are Vancouver (32%), Portland (16%) and Seattle (4%).
| Five Corners | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $106,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 5% | 8% |
| Work from home | 14% | 15% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Public schools in Five Corners fall behind 57% of Washington districts
The largest public high school is Prairie High School, with 1,502 students. The public schools here belong to the Evergreen School District. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 830 | – |
| Prairie High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,502 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WA on state tests and graduation
1.6% of the land in Five Corners is protected from building
4.0 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. The trail density in Five Corners is 0.7 miles per square mile.
| Five Corners | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.6% | 4% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Orchards Community Park | 1.9 mi | 39 |
| 2. Orchards Highlands Neighborhood Park | 0.6 mi | 8 |
| 3. Covington Park | 0.5 mi | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
In Five Corners, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 81° and January nights of 35°, with about 4 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Five Corners ranks healthier than 62% of the country’s towns
Within Washington it is less healthy than 72% of the 285 graded towns: Washington sets a high bar. Against the 7,720 U.S. towns with household incomes like Five Corners’s, it is less healthy than 64%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Five Corners does better than the Washington average on 1 of 31 CDC measures and worse on 9. For adults in the town, the share who had a checkup this year is 67%. 20% of adults in Five Corners report frequent mental distress; 28% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Five Corners | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 67% | 71% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 17% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 31% | 35% |
| What stands out | Five Corners | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with high cholesterol | 32.2% | 34.9% |
| More smokers | 12.5% | 10.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Natural hazards: moderate risk in Five Corners, mostly inland flooding
Since 1996, one flood insurance claim has been paid in Five Corners. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 52% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 45% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 26% to earthquakes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Homes in Five Corners sell for about $516K
On the market in Five Corners: a median 8 days to sell. Half of the homes sold in Five Corners went for more than their asking price. Among households here, 75% are owner-occupiers.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Five Corners
Colleges nearby
14 within 15 miles of the center of Five Corners
About 4 of every 100 Five Corners residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
98% of working residents leave Five Corners for work
Where Five Corners’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Five Corners
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Five Corners is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Washington, United States. The population was 20,973 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 5.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 213 ft
- Area code
- 360
Five Corners’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Five Corners.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five Corners | #143 | B− | C− | — | C+ | B |
| Vancouver | #237 | C− | D | D | C+ | B |
| Barberton | #94 | B | C− | — | B− | A− |
| Orchards | #167 | C+ | C− | — | C+ | B |
Five Corners, Barberton and Orchards report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Five Corners with a neighbor →
Questions about Five Corners
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Five Corners, WA a good place to live?
Five Corners grades B− overall, better than 45% of U.S. towns and #143 of 285 in Washington. It grades B for health and C+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Five Corners, WA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $460,000, 22% 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 C−.