Kitsap LakeWA
A town of 2,186. Public schools that outperform most of Washington.
Is Kitsap Lake a good place to live?
The best of Kitsap Lake’s subject grades are a B+ for schools and health; the weakest is a C− for hazard risk. The biggest park or preserve is Erlands Point Preserve, at 31 acres. Kitsap Lake has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Kitsap Lake stand out
Where Kitsap Lake beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Crosspoint | K–12 | 373 |
| Kitsap Adventist Christian School | K–9 | 59 |
| Widest gap | Kitsap Lake | WA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.2% | 5.1% |
99% of working residents leave Kitsap Lake for work
Where Kitsap Lake’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Kitsap Lake grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Kitsap Lake is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Space Needle and 138 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Kitsap Lake. Close and well known come first.
Big draw17 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
Big draw20 mi National ParkOlympic National Park3.6M visitors a year
18 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
18 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 · Olympic National Park: Wsiegmund, CC BY 2.5 · T-Mobile Park: MyName (Cacophony), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Seattle Underground: Mark Hursh, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Kitsap Lake: who provides what
Kitsap Lake is unincorporated, so Kitsap 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 Kitsap Lake.
Kitsap Lake’s schools rank ahead of 74% of Washington districts
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crosspoint PrivateLargest high schoolGrades K–12 | Grades K–12 | 373 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WA on state tests and graduation
Most of Kitsap Lake’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.4 jobs for each of them
0.5% of Kitsap Lake working residents work locally, where Washington’s towns sit at 4.9% and U.S. towns at 8%. Jobs in the town fell by 141 from 2013 to 2023, to 331. For residents locally, the share who live below the poverty line is 13%. The top destinations are Bremerton (19%), Seattle (14%) and Silverdale (10%).
| Kitsap Lake | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 4.9% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $101,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a high hazard risk in Kitsap Lake: earthquakes
Expected damage from storms and floods is higher here than in 78% of U.S. communities. Three quarters of Kitsap Lake’s expected losses from natural hazards come from earthquakes, followed by inland flooding at 21%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Kitsap Lake ranks healthier than 72% of the country’s towns
In Kitsap Lake, 70% of adults had a checkup this year. 18% of Kitsap Lake adults binge drink, above both Washington’s towns (17%) and U.S. towns (16%).
| Kitsap Lake | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 71% | 79% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 25% |
| What stands out | Kitsap Lake | WA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.2% | 5.1% |
| More adults without reliable transportation | 8.7% | 7.2% |
| More smokers | 12.2% | 10.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Kitsap Lake: mild winters and pleasant summers
In July, afternoons reach 76°; in January, nights fall to 35°, and about 3 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Conserved land covers 0.7% of Kitsap Lake
Across 2 parks and preserves: 0.2 miles of trail.
| Kitsap Lake | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.7% | 4% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Erlands Point Preserve | — | 31 |
| 2. Chico Salmon Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Kitsap Lake sells for about $500K
Among households in Kitsap Lake, 58% are owner-occupiers. The midpoint rent for Kitsap Lake comes to $1,784 a month.
| Kitsap Lake | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 58% | 71% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,784 a month | $1,739 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Kitsap Lake
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Kitsap Lake
About 9 of every 100 Kitsap Lake residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
About Kitsap Lake
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Kitsap Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,997. Prior to 2020, it was part of the Erlands Point-Kitsap Lake CDP. The Kitsap Lake CDP is in the center of the county, bordered to the south and east by the city of Bremerton, to the northeast by Erlands Point, and to the north by Chico. The CDP is in the valley of Kitsap Creek, north of (downstream from) Kitsap Lake, a water body that is within the Bremerton city limits. Downtown Bremerton is 6 miles (10 km) east-southeast of the Kitsap Lake CDP.
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- Area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 85 ft
Kitsap Lake’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Kitsap Lake.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kitsap Lake | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | B+ |
| Bremerton | #213 | C− | C− | C− | B− | A− |
| Chico | #29 | A− | C | — | B+ | A |
| Erlands Point | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Kitsap Lake has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Kitsap Lake and Chico report no FBI crime data of their own. Erlands Point isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Kitsap Lake with a neighbor →
Questions about Kitsap Lake
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Kitsap Lake, WA a good place to live?
Public schools that outperform most of Washington.
Is Kitsap Lake, WA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $476,000, 19% 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+.