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Place dossier plate
SheetWA-SAMMAMISH-WA · Sammamish, WA 66,375 pop · income 99th pct
Nearest income peer: Harlingen, NJ (+ $165 income $)
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 Sammamish
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sammamish on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Conway · lowest
58,461
Conway · lowest
58,461 median HH income
25.6% of the leader · rank #1
Sammamish · this city
227,273
Sammamish · this city
227,273 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #2
Harlingen · near
227,438
Harlingen · near
227,438 median HH income
99.7% of the leader · rank #3
Haworth · near
227,841
Haworth · near
227,841 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Spring Valley · near
227,857
Spring Valley · near
227,857 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Hobble Creek · near
227,981
Hobble Creek · near
227,981 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Forest · highest
228,120
Lake Forest · highest
228,120 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 Sammamish 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: 66,375.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sammamish - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Sammamish lands in the 99th percentile for household income and the 83rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
99th
percentile, household income
99th
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
83rd
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: Sammamish, WA
Washington's Sammamish is a small city, with 66,375 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $227,273 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.9%. Sammamish's housing stock carries a median value of $1,240,300, and the median resident age is 39.4 years. About 77.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 66.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 27 residential building permits were authorized in Sammamish (Construction Slowdown), down 85% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Sammamish reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 567.1 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Washington carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 107.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,472 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Washington run around $188, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 70.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Sammamish'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 comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households to reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sammamish, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Sammamish?
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 South Hill (68,161 residents, $109,235 income); Lakewood (63,034 residents, $70,524 income); Richland (61,912 residents, $92,550 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Union City, NJ (66,375 residents); Queen Creek, AZ (66,369 residents); Alpharetta, GA (66,355 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.
Is Sammamish growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,338 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 27 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
What does the education layer cover for Sammamish?
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 10 public schools within the city match. 77.0% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Sammamish?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 567.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% lower 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Sammamish?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 53.1%. 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
53.1%
Work from home
35.0%
Public transit
3.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 32,152 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Sammamish?
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 5.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
5.5×
Home value
$1,240,300
Household income
$227,273
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Top-decile income · poverty 4.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
B
City profile score · Sammamish, WA
74/100
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.
Household income A+
$227,273
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
77.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A+
28 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B-
4.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Sammamish profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $227,273
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 77.0%
Violent crime: 90/100 (A+) · 28 /100k
Poverty rate: 66/100 (B-) · 4.9%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Where Sammamish sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sammamish'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 - Sammamish highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Sammamish, WA (this city): home $1,240,300, crime 567/100k
Queen Creek, AZ : home $576,600, crime 941/100k
Alpharetta, GA : home $605,700, crime 1,401/100k
Skokie, IL : home $368,600, crime 2,890/100k
Conway, AR : home $234,600, crime 2,571/100k
Oshkosh, WI : home $168,400, crime 1,684/100k
Lakewood, WA : home $420,500, crime 4,270/100k
Richland, WA : home $401,800, crime 2,190/100k
Marysville, WA : home $521,500, crime 2,187/100k
Shoreline, WA : home $759,400, crime 2,745/100k
Lacey, WA : home $427,900, crime 2,655/100k
How does Sammamish compare to other US cities?
Where Sammamish sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value99% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety83% 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, Sammamish ranks #10 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 Sammamish 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 Sammamish near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sammamish ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sammamish only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#7 of 565
99th percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#9 of 565
98th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#319 of 598
46th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#6 of 599
99th 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
99th percentile nationally for median household income · 83rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sammamish's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sammamish'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 Sammamish's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,240,3001st percentilemore affordable than 1% 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
Sammamish's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,518 of 15,516
More affordable than 13% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#512 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.5×, Sammamish sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,518 of 15,516 and #512 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$227,273Sammamish, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sammamish, 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 Sammamish, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)77.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
66,375
Median Income
$227,273
Median Home Value
$1,240,300
Median Age
39.4
Poverty Rate
4.9%
Labor force participation
66.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
77.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
567.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
28.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
539.2
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sammamish's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
67,448 residents
2021
66,589 residents
2022
65,825 residents
2023
65,493 residents
2024
65,879 residents
2025
66,110 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
27
housing units authorized
Single-Family
27
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
175
175
0
$88.3M
2020
172
172
0
$80.1M
2021
50
50
0
$26.0M
2022
69
69
0
$38.4M
2023
46
46
0
$29.7M
2024
27
27
0
$21.0M
Permit volume decreased 85% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
53.1%
Carpool
5.0%
Public Transit
3.7%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
35.0%
Other
2.1%
Based on 32,152 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 Sammamish. 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 Sammamish 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 Sammamish sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sammamish 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.