Woods CreekWA
Home to 6,943 people, this town lies in Washington.
Is Woods Creek a good place to live?
Real strengths, and real weak spots. Cost of living is its weak spot: the typical home is worth about $823K, 7.1 years of the Seattle metro’s $115K median household income. Woods Creek’s overall grade of C+ puts it better than 38% of U.S. towns, 165th of 285 in Washington. It also trails on hazard risk (D): FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 85% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Its strongest subject is health: it is healthier than 79% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 21 of Washington’s 397 towns do worse. The town’s typical rent is $2,603 a month, where Washington’s towns sit at $1,737 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. Woods Creek’s average trip to work is 40 minutes, above both Washington’s towns (27 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes).
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · USGS PAD-US.
What makes Woods Creek stand out
Where Woods Creek beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Woods Creek for work
Where Woods Creek’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Woods Creek grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Woods Creek is from typical.
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Moving to Woods Creek: who provides what
Woods Creek 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 Woods Creek.
Woods Creek 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.
Woods Creek has a very high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Since 1982, Woods Creek has seen 46 flood insurance claims paid out. FEMA puts 63% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 26% to earthquakes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Woods Creek’s grade for health is an A−
Against the 2,346 U.S. towns with household incomes like Woods Creek’s, it is less healthy than 79%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Two figures for adults in Woods Creek: 28% have been diagnosed with depression, 18% get no exercise outside work. The share of adults in Woods Creek who had a checkup this year: 73%.
| Woods Creek | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 71% | 79% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 25% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 33% | 36% |
| What stands out | Woods Creek | WA |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 13.8% | 9% |
| More adults with asthma | 12% | 10.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.8% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most working residents commute out of Woods Creek
Woods Creek has 404 jobs for its 2,773 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 39.5 minutes, against 26.6 across Washington.
The top destinations are Seattle (15%), Monroe (10%) and Redmond (8%). Employers in Woods Creek added 89 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 404. The town’s median household income stands at $157,000. The median commute is under 19 miles.
| Woods Creek | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 40 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $157,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 5% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fewer young adults than Washington overall
The median household earns $156,950, against $98,141 across Washington, one input to its B for jobs and income.
13% of residents are 65 or older in Woods Creek. Adults 18 to 34 are one in ten residents (24% statewide); children under 18 are 31% of residents (21% statewide). In Woods Creek, the age of the median resident is 39.6 years.
| Woods Creek | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 31% | 22% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 13% | 16% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 30% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 37% and 60% women
The Census survey reached too few of Woods Creek’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±11.3 points. Across Washington, 49.6% of residents are women.
| Woods Creek | WA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 16.1% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 14.7% | 9.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 4.6% | 8.5% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 5.8% | 15.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 19.5% | 14.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.7% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13% | 12% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.8% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.9% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.2% | 7.7% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.2% | 21.6% | 26% |
| Some college | 28.1% | 21% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.5% | 10% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.7% | 24% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.3% | 15.6% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
In Woods Creek, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
The Monroe weather station, 5 miles away, records that about 2 days a year reach 90°, fewer than in 96% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 75°, cooler than in 98% of U.S. towns; January nights average 34.6°.
Woods Creek’s typical July afternoon high comes in at 75°F. About 3 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Woods Creek | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 75°F | 77°F | 85°F |
| January low | 35°F | 35°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Woods Creek | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.2% | 4% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Woods Creek stands out in Washington and nationally: a larger share of its households own their home
At 7.1 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 D for cost of living.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Space Needle and 121 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Woods Creek. Close and well known come first.
Big draw27 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
28 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
28 mi Ancient siteSeattle Underground
24 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
Everything we know about Woods Creek
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Woods Creek; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Woods Creek residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Washington.
About Woods Creek
CDP in Washington, United States
Woods Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 6,017 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 14 sq mi
- Elevation
- 367 ft
- Area code
- 360
Woods Creek’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Woods Creek.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Creek | #165 | C+ | D | — | B | A− |
| Monroe | #153 | C+ | D | C | B | A− |
| Chain Lake | #34 | A− | C | — | A− | A |
Woods Creek and Chain Lake report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Woods Creek with a neighbor →
Questions about Woods Creek
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Woods Creek, WA a good place to live?
Woods Creek grades C+ overall, better than 38% of U.S. towns and #165 of 285 in Washington. It grades A− for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Woods Creek, WA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $823,000, 40% 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.