Is Silver Firs a good place to live?
Silver Firs’s overall grade of A− puts it better than 84% of U.S. towns, 22nd of 285 in Washington. Health is its strong suit: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 94% of the country. The catch is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $860K, 7.5 years of the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income. The biggest place to walk is Willis D. Tucker Community Park, 79 acres with 3.1 miles of trail. Silver Firs’ median rent is $2,881 a month, where Washington’s towns sit at $1,737 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. The median household earns $163K. Silver Firs’ density of trails is 2.2 miles per square mile, above both the Washington town median (0.8) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4).
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · OpenStreetMap.
How Silver Firs grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Silver Firs is from typical.
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What makes Silver Firs stand out
Where Silver Firs beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Little Cedars Elementary School | K–6 | 646 |
| Forest View Elementary School | PK–5 | 634 |
| Silver Firs Elementary | PK–5 | 538 |
98% of working residents leave Silver Firs for work
Where Silver Firs’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Silver Firs.
Silver Firs has fewer 90° days 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.
Conservation land takes up 4.5% of Silver Firs
Across 2 parks and preserves: 15 miles of trail. Parks and preserves in Silver Firs: 2, covering 81 acres.
| Silver Firs | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 2.2 miles per square mile | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.5% | 4% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Willis D. Tucker Community Park | 3.1 mi | 79 |
| 2. Shaunessy Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
On state tests, Silver Firs’ schools beat 85% of Washington districts
Its A for schools comes with a D for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $860K.
Below: Two of its 6 schools, each with why it was picked. The public schools here belong to the Snohomish School District. The largest public high school is Glacier Peak High School, with 1,642 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,057 | – |
| Glacier Peak High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,642 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WA on state tests and graduation
Silver Firs earns an A for health
Against the 1,959 U.S. towns with household incomes like Silver Firs’s, it is healthier than 63%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
13% of Silver Firs adults say their health is fair or poor. On the CDC’s 31 measures, Silver Firs is ahead of Washington on 18 and behind on 1. Among adults locally, 15% get no exercise outside work and 11% report frequent physical distress.
| Silver Firs | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 31% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8% | 9.8% | 12% |
| What stands out | Silver Firs | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.6% | 8.4% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.1% | 9% |
| Fewer adults screened for colon cancer | 63.1% | 66.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most people working in Silver Firs commute elsewhere
Silver Firs has 2,575 jobs for its 11,041 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 1,236 in 2013 to 2,575.
Among workers in Silver Firs, 27% work remotely from home. Commuting out is the norm here: 2% of working residents work locally. Since 2013, Silver Firs has added 1,339 jobs, to 2,575 in 2023. The mean commuting time for Silver Firs comes to 32 minutes.
| Silver Firs | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $163,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 27% | 15% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 5% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and pleasant summers in Silver Firs
The Monroe weather station, 7 miles away, records that about 2 days a year reach 90°, fewer than in 96% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 74.1°, cooler than in 99% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.4°.
About 3 inches of snow falls in a winter. For Silver Firs, the typical July afternoon high is 74°F.
| Silver Firs | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 74°F | 77°F | 85°F |
| January low | 35°F | 35°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Silver Firs has a moderate natural-hazard risk, chiefly from earthquakes
Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 52% of U.S. communities. Flood insurance has paid one claim in Silver Firs since 2012.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median rent in Silver Firs is higher than in most of Washington or the rest of the country
At 7.5 years of the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 81% of Washington towns; that ratio is one input to its D for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $7,211, against $4,556 across Washington, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The median sale price was $930,000 in September 2026. In Silver Firs, nearly nine in ten households own their home. Sellers in Silver Firs got 99.1% of the asking price, typically.
| Silver Firs | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,881 a month | $1,737 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 89% | 70% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Silver Firs
Space Needle and 123 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Silver Firs. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
21 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
20 mi Ancient siteSeattle Underground
16 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 Silver Firs: who provides what
Silver Firs is unincorporated, so Snohomish 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.
Colleges nearby
11 within 15 miles of the center of Silver Firs
About 6 of every 100 Silver Firs residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Washington.
About Silver Firs
CDP in Washington, United States
Silver Firs is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 22,174 at the 2020 census. It lies northeast of the city of Mill Creek. Silver Firs is one of two CDPs that were created out of the former Seattle Hill-Silver Firs CDP in 2010, the other being Eastmont.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 14 sq mi
- Elevation
- 515 ft
- Area code
- 425
Silver Firs’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Silver Firs.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Firs | #22 | A− | D | — | A | A |
| Clearview | #14 | A | D | — | A | A+ |
| Eastmont | #37 | A− | D | — | A | A |
| Cathcart | — | — | D | — | A− | A |
| Mill Creek | #24 | A− | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Mill Creek East | #10 | A | D | — | A | A+ |
Cathcart has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Silver Firs, Clearview, Eastmont, Cathcart, Mill Creek and Mill Creek East report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Silver Firs with a neighbor →
Questions about Silver Firs
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Silver Firs, WA a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Silver Firs grades A− overall, better than 84% of U.S. towns and #22 of 285 in Washington. It grades A for health and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Silver Firs, WA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $860,000, 46% 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 D.
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