Census-designated place · Clark County, Washington

Meadow Glade, Washington

Meadow Glade is a census-designated place in Clark County, Washington, part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. It has 2,281 residents. Meadow Glade, Washington has a quality-of-life score of 77 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,584 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Washington it ranks #83 of 395 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), poverty rate (low) and food insecurity (low). It ranks worst on time spent in the emergency room (high), public libraries (low) and depression (high).

77High

Quality-of-life score: #3,584 of 15,651 cities and towns
Washington: #83 of 395 in WA
Population: 2,281 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 627.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 5344620

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety48#8,049/15,637
Economy99#146/15,631
Housing59#6,170/14,977
Health64#5,641/15,609
Healthcare58#6,554/15,650
Environment89#1,748/15,453
Education47#8,222/15,649
Infrastructure91#1,383/15,650
Community59#6,464/15,651
Leisure & amenities33#10,410/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Distance to an airport · low8 mi
97/100Washington 29 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauClark County value
Poverty rate · low2.4%
95/100Washington 10.0%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Food insecurity · low7.7%
94/100Washington 10.5%United States 15.6%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.337
93/100Washington 0.469United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Unemployment rate · low0.9%
92/100Washington 4.7%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Median Air Quality Index · low33
91/100Washington 382025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyClark County value

Weaknesses

Time spent in the emergency room · high267 min
1/100Washington 156 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesClark County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
5/100Washington 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesClark County value
Depression · high28.6%
9/100Washington 25.5%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Students per teacher · high18.3×
13/100Washington 17.9×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsClark County value
Pharmacies · low1.0 /10k
14/100Washington 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsClark County value
Drug overdose deaths · high25.7 /100k
16/100Washington 32.7 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataClark County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,859 (2015-2019) → 2,281 (2020-2024)
−20%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
57.4% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−57 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
36.0% (2015-2019) → 14.2% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
9.2% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−9.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Unemployment rateImproving
9.9% (2015-2019) → 0.9% (2020-2024)
−8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Poverty rateImproving
7.2% (2015-2019) → 2.4% (2020-2024)
−4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Meadow Glade, Washington improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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.

Improved1

Rent / income−22 points36.0% → 14.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Meadow Glade, Washington between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.7 min2015-2019	28.2 min2020-2024	+2.5 min	Within the margin of error	23%
Bachelor's degree or higher	38.0%2015-2019	36.5%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Broadband subscriptions	95.5%2015-2019	94.1%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Effective property tax rate	0.96%2015-2019	0.75%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	60%
High school diploma or higher	97.1%2015-2019	95.3%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Home price to income ratio	4.1×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	+0.9×	Within the margin of error	25%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3342015-2019	0.3372020-2024	+0.002	Within the margin of error	48%
Median household income	$118,4092015-2019	$129,4272020-2024	+9.3%	Within the margin of error	16%
Rent as share of income	36.0%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	−22 points	Improved	99%

“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 Meadow Glade, Washington five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Meadow Glade, 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, Meadow Glade, Washington itself moved +2.2 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

2,281 residents (±452)

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

933 households (±167)

Meadow Glade, Washington
Washington share

Under $25k3.6%†34
$25k–50k7.6%†71
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

933 households (±167)

Meadow Glade, Washington
Washington share

Own95%886
Rent5.0%†47

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

1,050 workers (±305)

Meadow Glade, Washington
Washington share

Drive alone68%†718
Carpool9.3%†98
Public transit

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 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-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 Clark County, the county holding most of Meadow Glade's residents.

Clark County has 12,552 employer establishments, 240 for every 10,000 residents (0.97× the US rate of 248; 0.93× Washington's), with 159,914 paid employees at an average annual pay of $66,687. The Census Bureau also counts 41,645 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 12,552; 41,645 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 240; US 248 · Washington 258
Paid employees: 159,914
Average annual pay: $66,687; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	1,335	25.6	1.65×More than typical	12,550	$72,384	1,904
Ambulatory health care services	888	17	0.82×About typical	11,787	$82,026	1,780
Restaurants and other eating places	752	14.4	0.78×Fewer than typical	13,991	$26,989	126
Lessors of real estate	701	13.4	1.09×About typical	2,582	$64,845	3,579
Construction of buildings	661	12.7	1.67×More than typical	4,405	$75,724	1,440
Truck transportation	445	8.5	1.69×More than typical	2,312	$63,822	2,048
Building finishing contractors	403	7.7	2.03×More than typical	2,097	$60,949	786
Building equipment contractors	388	7.4	1.24×About typical	5,324	$76,605	299
Services to buildings and dwellings	383	7.3	1.09×About typical	2,476	$44,121	1,747
Offices of other health practitioners	361	6.9	1.14×About typical	2,053	$48,651	1,055
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	351	6.7	2.13×More than typical	3,151	$65,621	238
Management, scientific and technical consulting	346	6.6	0.99×About typical	1,600	$85,768	1,770

Rank places for an industry Open Clark County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 521,954 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 $2,776 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Meadow Glade, Washington: $1.22 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2,776; −99% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.22; US $1,994
Sole-source: 43%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$3,015100%
Department of Veterans Affairs$1,64559%

Top recipients

TFI-TELEMARK, INC.$3,014100%
ARJO INC$1,64559%
HALL FAMILY INVESTMENTS 3, LLC-$75.770.0%
GREENE ECONOMICS LLC-$1,8080.0%

Spending by fiscal year

4.9KFY2017
8.8KFY2018
6.1KFY2019
17KFY2020
13KFY2021
16.3KFY2022
12.9KFY2024
264KFY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$3,014100%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$1,64559%

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 Meadow Glade, Washington, so they do not add up across cities.

Meadow Glade, Washington's figures are part of those of Clark County, WA ($213.6M 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: Meadow Glade is mostly in Clark County.

See federal money in Clark 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.

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

House

Marie Gluesenkamp PerezD-WA-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 70%Missed 1.3%

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.

Clark County78100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA80

Other cities and towns in Clark 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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