Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 3,555 people, this town lies in Washington.
A town of contrasts. Its best grade is for health (A+): it is healthier than 96% of U.S. towns. With a B− overall, Lake Holm is better than 53% of U.S. towns. It ranks 115th of 285 in Washington. Add incomes to its strengths (A+): the median household earns $177K. The weak point is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $829K, 7.2 years of the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income. Hazard risk is weaker too: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 84% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. This Washington town has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Patton Bridge.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · FEMA National Risk Index · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Lake Holm’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 Lake Holm is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 97% of comparable towns) to D for hazard risk (better than 10%), so the B− overall blends very different results.
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The archive holds 4 maps from 1949 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lake Holm. Close and well known come first.
Big draw24 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
22 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
23 mi Ancient siteSeattle Underground
9 mi Theme parkWild Waves Theme ParkSpace Needle: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lumen Field: "Smart Destinations", GoSeattleCard.com, and Go Seattle Card Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Climate Pledge Arena: Sea Cow, CC BY-SA 4.0 · T-Mobile Park: MyName (Cacophony), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Seattle Underground: Mark Hursh, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wild Waves Theme Park: Jessica Spengler from Hove, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0
Lake Holm is unincorporated, so King 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 Lake Holm.
Lake Holm has cooler summers than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Seattle and beyond, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Washington.
Against the 1,449 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lake Holm’s, it is healthier than 66%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
The share of adults in Lake Holm who have been diagnosed with depression is 25%, below Washington’s towns (26%) but above U.S. towns (23%). Nearly a quarter of adults have obesity in the town. The town does better than the Washington average on 18 of 31 CDC measures and worse on 3. Among adults locally, 28% sleep under 7 hours and 14% get no exercise outside work.
| Lake Holm | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 33% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 33% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 18% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Lake Holm | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 3.4% | 5.1% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.7% | 8.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.3% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools: the Auburn School District. Its one school is below. Lake Holm’s only public school teaches 413 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake View Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 413 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WA on state tests and graduation
Paid flood insurance claims in Lake Holm since 1995: 13. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 55% come from inland flooding and 43% from earthquakes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Lake Holm has 422 jobs for its 1,526 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 36 minutes, against 26.6 across Washington.
In Lake Holm, the average trip to work is 36 minutes, where Washington’s towns sit at 27 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in the town rose by 143, to 422. Most working residents leave Lake Holm for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Seattle (15%), Kent (11%) and Auburn (11%).
| Lake Holm | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $177,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 36 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 1.1% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 5% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
July afternoons average 76.5°, cooler than in 97% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.2°.
The January low for Lake Holm comes to 35°F. About 4 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Lake Holm | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 77°F | 77°F | 85°F |
| January low | 35°F | 35°F | 22°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
3.6 miles of trail wind through 5 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Porter Levee Natural Area, at 51 acres. Lake Holm’s trail network density is 0.4 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Porter Levee Natural Area | — | 51 |
| 2. Neeley Bridge Natural Area | — | 37 |
| 3. Green River Natural Area | — | 17 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
At 7.2 years of the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 76% of Washington towns; that ratio is one input to its C− for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $7,132, against $4,556 across Washington, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
4 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Holm
About 1 of every 100 Lake Holm residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
2 places in Lake Holm on the National Register of Historic Places.
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Lake Holm is a census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lake Holm had a population of 3,430.
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2 towns share a border with Lake Holm.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Holm | #115 | B− | C− | — | B− | A+ |
| Lake Morton-Berrydale | #137 | B− | D | — | B− | A |
| Auburn | #214 | C− | D | D | B− | A− |
Lake Holm and Lake Morton-Berrydale report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lake Holm with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lake Holm grades B− overall, better than 53% of U.S. towns and #115 of 285 in Washington. It grades A+ for health and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $829,000, 41% 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−.
