Lake Marcel-StillwaterWA
A town of 1,549.
Is Lake Marcel-Stillwater a good place to live?
The best of Lake Marcel-Stillwater’s subject grades are an A for health and schools and an A− for incomes; the weakest is a C for hazard risk. Lake Marcel-Stillwater’s median household income is $202,000, above both Washington’s towns ($98,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000). Only 5 of the 286 Washington towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Lake Marcel-Stillwater. On the outdoors, just 6 of Washington’s 397 towns do worse. Lake Marcel-Stillwater has 1 place on the National Register. Lake Marcel-Stillwater has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Lake Marcel-Stillwater stand out
Where Lake Marcel-Stillwater beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Lake Marcel-Stillwater for work
Where Lake Marcel-Stillwater’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lake Marcel-Stillwater grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Lake Marcel-Stillwater is from typical.
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Space Needle and 132 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lake Marcel-Stillwater. Close and well known come first.
Big draw21 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
21 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
21 mi Ancient siteSeattle Underground
18 mi Stadium & arenaHusky StadiumPhoto 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 · Seattle Underground: Mark Hursh, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Husky Stadium: Atomic Taco, CC BY-SA 2.0
Moving to Lake Marcel-Stillwater: who provides what
Lake Marcel-Stillwater 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lake Marcel-Stillwater.
Residents of Lake Marcel-Stillwater are healthier than 95% of U.S. towns
Lake Marcel-Stillwater beats the Washington average on 14 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 28% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Lake Marcel-Stillwater, below both the Washington town median (33%) and the median of U.S. towns (36%). 26% of Lake Marcel-Stillwater adults have obesity.
| Lake Marcel-Stillwater | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 33% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 33% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 18% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 7.7% | 9.8% | 12% |
| What stands out | Lake Marcel-Stillwater | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5.7% | 9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.5% | 8.4% |
| More binge drinkers | 18.7% | 16.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
On state tests, Lake Marcel-Stillwater’s schools beat 93% of Washington districts
Its public schools are run by the Riverview School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stillwater ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 491 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WA on state tests and graduation
Most of Lake Marcel-Stillwater’s workers commute out: the town has 0.1 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Lake Marcel-Stillwater for work: only 0% work in town. Lake Marcel-Stillwater’s average trip to work is 35 minutes. Since 2013, Lake Marcel-Stillwater has added 63 jobs, to 96 in 2023.
| Lake Marcel-Stillwater | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5.3% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lake Marcel-Stillwater has mild winters and pleasant summers
Lake Marcel-Stillwater has mild winters and cool summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Lake Marcel-Stillwater is 75°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Earthquakes leads a high hazard risk in Lake Marcel-Stillwater
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 66% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Lake Marcel-Stillwater sells for about $1.75M
94% of households own their home in Lake Marcel-Stillwater.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Lake Marcel-Stillwater
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Marcel-Stillwater
About 0 of every 100 Lake Marcel-Stillwater residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
About Lake Marcel-Stillwater
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Lake Marcel-Stillwater is a census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,334 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- 299 ft
- Area code
- 206
Questions about Lake Marcel-Stillwater
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lake Marcel-Stillwater, WA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $848,000, 44% 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.