Census-designated place · Mason County, Washington

Grapeview, Washington

Grapeview is a census-designated place in Mason County, Washington, part of the Shelton, WA metro area. It has 1,088 residents. Grapeview, Washington has a quality-of-life score of 42 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,014 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Washington it ranks #299 of 395 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), uninsured residents (under 65) (low) and median Air Quality Index (low). It ranks worst on drug overdose deaths (high), math scores (low) and reading scores (low).

42Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,014 of 15,651 cities and towns
Washington: #299 of 395 in WA
Population: 1,088 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 296.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 5328135

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety24#11,861/15,637
Economy84#2,556/15,631
Housing—
Health39#9,579/15,609
Healthcare28#11,341/15,650
Environment97#530/15,453
Education28#11,313/15,649
Infrastructure74#4,019/15,650
Community25#11,795/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,747/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Grapeview, Washington ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Mason 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

Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100Washington 93.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.0%
99/100Washington 7.8%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Median Air Quality Index · low23
97/100Washington 382025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMason County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.7 µg/m³
93/100Washington 8.4 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMason County value
Physical inactivity · low16.4%
91/100Washington 19.0%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Hot days · low3 days
90/100Washington 13 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMason County value

Weaknesses

Drug overdose deaths · high67.3 /100k
1/100Washington 32.7 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMason County value
Math scores · low2.31
1/100Washington 2.91United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMason County value
Reading scores · low2.47
1/100Washington 2.98United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMason County value
Suicide rate · high30.7 /100k
3/100Washington 17.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMason County value
Pharmacies · low0.4 /10k
3/100Washington 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMason County value
Social associations · low4.8 /10k
6/100Washington 8.2 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMason County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
784 (2015-2019) → 1,088 (2020-2024)
+39%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
78.1% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−78 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 53.8% (2020-2024)
+54 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
14.7% (2015-2019) → 32.3% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
10.0% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
90.2% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Grapeview, Washington improved on 0 of 5 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 5 moved within the margin of error and 0 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.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 5 measures

Change of every measure of Grapeview, Washington between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	90.2%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	+9.8 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Effective property tax rate	0.86%2015-2019	0.75%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	37%
High school diploma or higher	94.0%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	+6 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3582015-2019	0.3962020-2024	+0.038	Within the margin of error	22%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15075 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 Grapeview, Washington five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Grapeview, 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, Grapeview, Washington itself moved +6.2 points in standing on average over the same 4 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

1,088 residents (±309)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 20–29 men (−15.8 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,088 residents (±309)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

White82%†897
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino9.8%†107

Education

838 residents (±243)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

No high school diploma0.0%0
High school or GED24%†201
Some college32%†271

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

470 households (±139)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

Under $25k16%†74
$25k–50k26%†120
$50k–75k8.1%†38
$75k–100k2.3%†11
$100k–150k29%†134
$150k–200k20%†93
$200k or more0.0%0

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

470 households (±139)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

Own95%†445
Rent5.3%†25

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

13 households (±15)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,0000.0%0
$1,000–1,50054%†7

Home values

445 homes (±144)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

Under $150k22%†100
$150k–250k2.7%†12
$250k–400k10%†46

Age of homes

679 homes (±148)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

2010 or later7.7%†52
2000–200920%†137
1980–199923%†159

Size of homes

679 homes (±148)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

Studio1.0%†7
1 bedroom16%†107
2 bedrooms48%†329

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

454 workers (±204)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

Drive alone65%†297
Carpool15%†68
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home20%†89
Other0.0%0

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

365 workers (±192)

Grapeview, Washington
Washington share

Under 15 min2.5%†9
15–29 min3.3%†12
30–44 min43%†156

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Shelton, 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 Mason County, the county holding most of Grapeview's residents.

Mason County has 1,072 employer establishments, 156 for every 10,000 residents (0.63× the US rate of 248; 0.60× Washington's), with 10,138 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,417. The Census Bureau also counts 3,578 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,072; 3,578 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 156; US 248 · Washington 258
Paid employees: 10,138
Average annual pay: $50,417; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	117	17	1.10×About typical	454	$49,282	191
Restaurants and other eating places	93	13.5	0.74×Fewer than typical	1,097	$24,475	10
Construction of buildings	72	10.5	1.38×More than typical	267	$51,045	133
Lessors of real estate	61	8.9	0.72×Fewer than typical	106	$40,538	356
Ambulatory health care services	52	7.6	0.36×Fewer than typical	287	$67,892	146
Services to buildings and dwellings	50	7.3	1.08×About typical	172	$38,459	309
Full-service restaurants	38	5.5	0.72×Fewer than typical	427	$27,698	5
Real estate agents and brokers	34	4.9	1.02×About typical	64	$43,938	132
Building equipment contractors	33	4.8	0.80×Fewer than typical	120	$55,475	26
Limited-service restaurants	32	4.7	0.58×Fewer than typical	506	$23,158	3
Landscaping services	31	4.5	1.29×More than typical	101	$43,762	170
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	30	4.4	1.38×More than typical	109	$50,128	20

Rank places for an industry Open Mason County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 68,768 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Grapeview, Washington: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

4.4KFY2017
5.3KFY2018
6.1KFY2019
2.6KFY2020
11.5KFY2022

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Grapeview, Washington, so they do not add up across cities.

Grapeview, Washington's figures are part of those of Mason County, WA ($1.4M 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: Grapeview is mostly in Mason County.

See federal money in Mason 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.

Grapeview, Washington is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Emily RandallD-WA-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 3.0%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

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

Mason County42100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Shelton, WA38

Other cities and towns in Mason 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
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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