Warm BeachWA
3,442 people live in this town, settled in 1923.
Is Warm Beach a good place to live?
At C+ overall, Warm Beach ranks 155th of 285 in Washington. That leaves it better than 40% of U.S. towns. Cost of living is its weak spot: the typical home is worth about $671K, 5.8 years of the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income. Hazard risk is weaker too: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 53% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Its strongest is health: it is healthier than 72% of U.S. towns. It also does well on schools (B+): its public schools beat 71% of Washington towns on state tests and graduation. Only 34 of Washington’s 397 towns score lower on the outdoors. Only 7 of the 285 Washington towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Warm Beach.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · USGS PAD-US · Census LEHD, 2023.
Warm Beach has grown 23% from 2010 to 2020
2,437 counted in 2010 and 2,990 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Warm Beach grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Warm Beach is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Space Needle and 106 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Warm Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw38 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw38 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw39 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
40 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
39 mi Ancient siteSeattle Underground
36 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 Warm Beach: who provides what
Warm Beach 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Warm Beach.
Warm Beach has cooler summers than nearly all U.S. towns and is healthy by national standards but mid-pack in Washington; it also has little public open land.
Warm Beach stands out in Washington and nationally: a smaller share of its working residents work locally
Warm Beach has 137 jobs for its 1,273 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. 29.8% of workers work from home, against 19.8% across Washington.
Warm Beach’s typical journey to work is 33 minutes, above both the Washington town median (27 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Warm Beach dropped by 154, to 137. The median commute is under 22 miles. The top destinations are Everett (18%), Seattle (12%) and Arlington (6%).
| Warm Beach | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 5% | 8% |
| Median household income | $100,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 7.5% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fewer of Warm Beach’s adults binge drink than in the typical Washington or U.S. town
Within Washington it is less healthy than 56% of the 285 graded towns: Washington sets a high bar.
Among adults in Warm Beach, 15% report frequent physical distress. Nearly a third of Warm Beach adults sleep under 7 hours, close to Washington’s towns (33%) and below U.S. towns (36%). In Warm Beach, 38% of adults have high blood pressure, and 77% had a checkup this year. CDC measures, 31 in all: Warm Beach beats Washington on 11 and trails on 9.
| Warm Beach | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 31% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 71% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| What stands out | Warm Beach | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.7% | 10.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 12% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The climate in Warm Beach brings mild winters and pleasant summers
July afternoons average 73.6°, cooler than in 99% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.4°.
The January low in Warm Beach is 35°F. About 3 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Warm Beach | 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
Top of a moderate hazard risk in Warm Beach: earthquakes
Of the losses FEMA expects in Warm Beach, 50% come from earthquakes and 39% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Conserved land covers 0.8% of Warm Beach
Just 26 of its 3,329 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Warm Beach itself; its outdoors grade is D.
In 2 parks and preserves, walkers have 0.2 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. High Ropes Course | — | 1 |
| 2. Lake Martha Public Access | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Warm Beach sells for about $805K at the median
67% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 49.9% across Washington.
In Warm Beach, the typical rent is $2,111 a month. For households in the town, the share who are owner-occupiers is 71%.
| Warm Beach | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,111 a month | $1,737 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 71% | 70% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Warm Beach
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Warm Beach
About 3 of every 100 Warm Beach residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
100% of working residents leave Warm Beach for work
Where Warm Beach’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Warm Beach
CDP in Washington, United States
Warm Beach (Lushootseed: dxʷtux̌ʷub) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,990 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 59 ft
- Area code
- 360
Warm Beach’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Warm Beach.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warm Beach | #155 | C+ | D | — | B+ | B+ |
| Kayak Point | — | — | C− | — | B+ | A− |
Kayak Point has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Warm Beach and Kayak Point report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Warm Beach with a neighbor →
Questions about Warm Beach
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Warm Beach, WA a good place to live?
Warm Beach grades C+ overall, better than 40% of U.S. towns and #155 of 285 in Washington. It grades B+ for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Warm Beach, WA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $671,000, 14% 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.