City · King County, Washington

Clyde Hill, Washington

Clyde Hill is a city in King County, Washington, part of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area. It has 3,119 residents. Clyde Hill, Washington has a quality-of-life score of 90 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,505 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Washington it ranks #12 of 395 cities and towns. It ranks best on food insecurity (low), adult smoking (low) and physical inactivity (low). It ranks worst on home price to income ratio (high), property crime rate (high) and drug overdose deaths (high).

90Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,505 of 15,651 cities and towns
Washington: #12 of 395 in WA
Population: 3,119 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 2,955.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 5313365

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety35#10,091/15,637
Economy92#1,186/15,631
Housing52#7,148/14,977
Health92#1,261/15,609
Healthcare97#521/15,650
Environment20#12,327/15,453
Education89#1,742/15,649
Infrastructure100#3/15,650
Community90#1,587/15,651
Leisure & amenities91#1,386/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Clyde Hill, Washington ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “King County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Food insecurity · low4.3%
100/100Washington 10.5%United States 15.6%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Adult smoking · low4.4%
100/100Washington 12.2%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Physical inactivity · low9.8%
100/100Washington 19.0%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Poor or fair health · low8.1%
100/100Washington 17.4%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult obesity · low17.7%
100/100Washington 35.0%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Median household income · high$250,001
100/100Washington $99,309United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013

Weaknesses

Home price to income ratio · high8.0×
3/100Washington 5.8×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Property crime rate · high2,714 /100k
3/100Washington 1,975 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationKing County value
Drug overdose deaths · high32.0 /100k
7/100Washington 32.7 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataKing County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.513
9/100Washington 0.469United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high8.9 µg/m³
14/100Washington 8.4 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyKing County value
Students per teacher · high17.8×
15/100Washington 17.9×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsKing County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
3,329 (2015-2019) → 3,119 (2020-2024)
−6.3%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
12.7% (2015-2019) → 38.9% (2020-2024)
+26 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
9.0% (2015-2019) → 23.1% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
New homes permittedImproving
3.2 /1k (2021) → 4.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+40%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Child poverty rateImproving
5.5% (2015-2019) → 2.3% (2020-2024)
−3.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
76.8% (2015-2019) → 79.6% (2020-2024)
+2.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Clyde Hill, Washington improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 8 moved within the margin of error and 2 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Rent / income+14 points9.0% → 23.1%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Clyde Hill, Washington between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.3 min2015-2019	17.8 min2020-2024	−1.5 min	Within the margin of error	65%
Bachelor's degree or higher	76.8%2015-2019	79.6%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Broadband subscriptions	98.3%2015-2019	98.6%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Effective property tax rate	0.66%2015-2019	0.67%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	14%
High school diploma or higher	97.5%2015-2019	98.8%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Home price to income ratio	8.4×2015-2019	8.0×2020-2024	−0.4×	Little change	91%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5002015-2019	0.5132020-2024	+0.013	Within the margin of error	39%
Median household income	$238,9582015-2019	$250,0012020-2024	+4.6%	Little change	11%
Public transit commuters	4.2%2015-2019	5.6%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	99%
Rent as share of income	9.0%2015-2019	23.1%2020-2024	+14 points	Declined	5%
Unemployment rate	3.6%2015-2019	4.7%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Clyde Hill, Washington five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Clyde Hill, Washington in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Clyde Hill, Washington itself moved −1.9 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

3,119 residents (±23)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,173 households (±120)

Clyde Hill, Washington
Washington share

Under $25k2.3%†27
$25k–50k1.2%†14
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,173 households (±120)

Clyde Hill, Washington
Washington share

Own91%1,072
Rent8.6%†101

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,259 workers (±135)

Clyde Hill, Washington
Washington share

Drive alone43%537
Carpool4.0%†50
Public transit5.6%†71

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of King County, the county holding most of Clyde Hill's residents.

King County has 70,376 employer establishments, 308 for every 10,000 residents (1.24× the US rate of 248; 1.20× Washington's), with 1,305,947 paid employees at an average annual pay of $110,043. The Census Bureau also counts 202,770 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 70,376; 202,770 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 308; US 248 · Washington 258
Paid employees: 1,305,947
Average annual pay: $110,043; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of King County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	5,715	25	1.20×About typical	68,816	$77,202	10,245
Restaurants and other eating places	5,403	23.7	1.29×More than typical	84,390	$34,554	762
Lessors of real estate	5,152	22.6	1.83×More than typical	27,321	$83,981	21,973
Specialty trade contractors	3,739	16.4	1.06×About typical	46,610	$89,054	6,017
Construction of buildings	2,825	12.4	1.64×More than typical	23,074	$97,452	3,804
Management, scientific and technical consulting	2,644	11.6	1.73×More than typical	29,439	$141,081	13,433
Full-service restaurants	2,618	11.5	1.49×More than typical	44,749	$39,294	313
Offices of other health practitioners	2,317	10.1	1.67×More than typical	10,665	$51,767	6,189
Real estate agents and brokers	2,276	10	2.05×More than typical	7,330	$99,042	5,709
Computer systems design and related services	2,117	9.3	2.14×More than typical	41,208	$141,132	4,743
Limited-service restaurants	1,771	7.8	0.97×About typical	27,274	$29,501	293
Services to buildings and dwellings	1,700	7.4	1.10×About typical	14,246	$49,924	6,666

Rank places for an industry Open King County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 2,283,086 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $2.1M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Clyde Hill, Washington: $662 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $2.1M; −46% vs FY2025
Per resident: $662; US $1,995
Sole-source: 21%; US 30%
Single offer: 31%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Highway Administration$631.7K31%
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$384.2K19%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$280.2K14%
Department of the Air Force$275.8K13%
Transportation Security Administration$249.5K12%
Bureau of Reclamation$134.8K6.5%
Defense Logistics Agency$45.2K2.2%
Department of Veterans Affairs$20.7K1.0%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

160.5KFY2017
361.9KFY2018
1MFY2019
1.2MFY2020
2.8MFY2021
3.6MFY2022
3.6MFY2023
4.5M

Top industries (NAICS)

Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$670.8K33%
Scheduled air transportation · 4811$634.5K31%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$290.3K14%
Software publishers · 5132$288.4K14%
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211$90.4K4.4%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Clyde Hill, Washington, so they do not add up across cities.

Clyde Hill, Washington's figures are part of those of King County, WA ($11.1B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Clyde Hill is mostly in King County.

See federal money in King County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Clyde Hill, Washington is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

King County83100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA82

Other cities and towns in King County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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