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SheetWA-LYNNWOOD-WA · Lynnwood, WA 40,953 pop · income 58th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Lynnwood
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lynnwood on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lancaster · lowest
54,901
Lancaster · lowest
54,901 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #1
Edinburg · near
76,429
Edinburg · near
76,429 median HH income
49.7% of the leader · rank #2
Lynnwood · this city
76,439
Lynnwood · this city
76,439 median HH income
49.7% of the leader · rank #3
Colonial Heig… · near
76,440
Colonial Heig… · near
76,440 median HH income
49.7% of the leader · rank #4
Jekyll Island · near
76,445
Jekyll Island · near
76,445 median HH income
49.7% of the leader · rank #5
Doe Run · near
76,447
Doe Run · near
76,447 median HH income
49.7% of the leader · rank #6
Issaquah · highest
153,786
Issaquah · highest
153,786 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Lynnwood on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 40,953.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lynnwood - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Lynnwood lands in the 58th percentile for household income and the 2nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
58th
percentile, household income
91st
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
2nd
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Lynnwood, WA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 40,953 residents in Lynnwood, a small city within Washington. The typical household in Lynnwood brings in $76,439 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.1%. Lynnwood's housing stock carries a median value of $635,800, and the median resident age is 39.2 years. 32.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 60.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 535 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 1683% from five years earlier. Lynnwood's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 6328.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Washington carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Washington at 107.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,472 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Washington's average monthly utility costs around $188 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 70.0 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Lynnwood's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lynnwood, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Lynnwood?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 8.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Lynnwood?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lynnwood?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 6328.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 178% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lynnwood?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Washington, the closest population matches are Lake Stevens (39,500 residents, $118,290 income); Issaquah (39,472 residents, $153,786 income); Puyallup (42,642 residents, $95,639 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Maplewood, MN (40,981 residents); Romeoville, IL (40,996 residents); Covington, KY (40,902 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Lynnwood growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,586 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 535 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
38,546
2025 estimate
42,132
Period change
+9.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 32.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
10.1%
Bachelor's degree+
32.6%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 10.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
D
City profile score · Lynnwood, WA
42/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$76,439
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
10.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
264 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living F
107.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Lynnwood profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 62/100 (C+) · 32.6%
Household income: 56/100 (C) · $76,439
Poverty rate: 39/100 (F) · 10.1%
Violent crime: 38/100 (F) · 264 /100k
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Where Lynnwood sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lynnwood's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Lynnwood highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Lynnwood, WA (this city): home $635,800, crime 6,329/100k
Maplewood, MN : home $291,300, crime 3,169/100k
Romeoville, IL : home $245,200, crime 1,163/100k
Covington, KY : home $167,900, crime 1,923/100k
Lancaster, OH : home $180,200, crime 2,531/100k
Reynoldsburg, OH : home $230,300, crime 2,878/100k
Mount Juliet, TN : home $423,000, crime 1,124/100k
Lake Stevens, WA : home $593,900, crime 766/100k
Puyallup, WA : home $507,000, crime 4,244/100k
Edmonds, WA : home $840,200, crime 3,261/100k
Longview, WA : home $339,000, crime 3,392/100k
How does Lynnwood compare to other US cities?
Where Lynnwood sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income58% higher than other cities
Home value91% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety2% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Washington alone, Lynnwood ranks #151 of 156 Washington cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Lynnwood against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Washington only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Washington-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Lynnwood near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lynnwood ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lynnwood only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#326 of 565
42nd percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#115 of 565
80th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#156 of 598
74th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#198 of 599
66th percentile in Washington
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Washington only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
58th percentile nationally for median household income · 2nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lynnwood's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lynnwood's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Lynnwood's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$635,8009th percentilemore affordable than 9% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Lynnwood's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,120 of 15,516
More affordable than 3% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,216 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 8.3×, Lynnwood sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,120 of 15,516 and #3,216 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$76,439Lynnwood, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lynnwood, WA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Lynnwood, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
40,953
Median Income
$76,439
Median Home Value
$635,800
Median Age
39.2
Poverty Rate
10.1%
Labor force participation
60.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
6328.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
264.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
6064.6
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lynnwood's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
38,546 residents
2021
38,901 residents
2022
40,397 residents
2023
40,967 residents
2024
41,449 residents
2025
42,132 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
535
housing units authorized
Single-Family
18
detached homes
Multifamily
517
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
13.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
30
30
0
$12.0M
2020
1,116
55
1,061
$134.8M
2021
1,299
14
1,285
$190.5M
2022
392
61
331
$75.4M
2023
219
20
199
$39.8M
2024
535
18
517
$106.1M
Permit volume increased 1683% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.6%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
7.8%
Walk
2.3%
Work from Home
13.1%
Other
1.3%
Based on 20,079 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Washington statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $188
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Washington at $188 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Washington statewide averages, not a meter reading for Lynnwood. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Washington's BEA cost-of-living index is 107.0 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Lynnwood is $1,472/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Washington statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.0 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Washington statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Lynnwood sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lynnwood compares to similar-size Washington cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.