Census-designated place · Pacific County, Washington

Ocean Park, Washington

Ocean Park is a census-designated place in Pacific County, Washington. It has 2,122 residents. Ocean Park, Washington has a quality-of-life score of 39 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,574 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Washington it ranks #311 of 395 cities and towns. It ranks best on grocery stores (high), median Air Quality Index (low) and violent crime rate (low). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), drug overdose deaths (high) and child care cost burden (high).

39Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,574 of 15,651 cities and towns
Washington: #311 of 395 in WA
Population: 2,122 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 700.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 5350535

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.

Safety66#5,337/15,637
Economy40#9,397/15,631
Housing35#9,717/14,977
Health17#12,898/15,609
Healthcare29#11,065/15,650
Environment100#1/15,453
Education25#11,693/15,649
Infrastructure15#13,261/15,650
Community57#6,782/15,651
Leisure & amenities58#6,591/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Grocery stores · high5.8 /10k
100/100Washington 1.8 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPacific County value
Median Air Quality Index · low16
99/100Washington 382025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPacific County value
Violent crime rate · low40 /100k
99/100Washington 284 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figurePacific County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.0 µg/m³
96/100Washington 8.4 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPacific County value
Hot days · low1 days
96/100Washington 13 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPacific County value
Pharmacies · high2.9 /10k
95/100Washington 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPacific County value

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high45.5 /100k
1/100Washington 17.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionPacific County value
Drug overdose deaths · high53.7 /100k
1/100Washington 32.7 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataPacific County value
Child care cost burden · high46.0%
2/100Washington 36.6%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePacific County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Washington 1.4 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPacific County value
Dentists · low21 /100k
5/100Washington 88 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePacific County value
Depression · high29.2%
8/100Washington 25.5%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,745 (2015-2019) → 2,122 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Unemployment rateImproving
22.2% (2015-2019) → 6.6% (2020-2024)
−16 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 11.6% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
High school diploma or higherImproving
84.3% (2015-2019) → 95.8% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Poverty rateImproving
21.6% (2015-2019) → 10.2% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
31.3% (2015-2019) → 19.9% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Ocean Park, 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

High school++11 points84.3% → 95.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Ocean Park, Washington between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.5%2015-2019	24.7%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Broadband subscriptions	91.8%2015-2019	83.4%2020-2024	−8.4 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Effective property tax rate	1.10%2015-2019	0.76%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	78%
High school diploma or higher	84.3%2015-2019	95.8%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	97%
Home price to income ratio	4.0×2015-2019	5.3×2020-2024	+1.3×	Within the margin of error	13%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5352015-2019	0.4602020-2024	−0.075	Within the margin of error	91%
Median household income	$43,1252015-2019	$65,6762020-2024	+52%	Within the margin of error	86%
Poverty rate	21.6%2015-2019	10.2%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	95%
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 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 Ocean Park, Washington five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ocean Park, 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, Ocean Park, Washington itself moved +3 points in standing on average over the same 7 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

2,122 residents (±360)

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

1,078 households (±181)

Ocean Park, Washington
Washington share

Under $25k20%†219
$25k–50k23%†253
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,078 households (±181)

Ocean Park, Washington
Washington share

Own89%958
Rent11%†120

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

614 workers (±168)

Ocean Park, Washington
Washington share

Drive alone73%†447
Carpool0.0%0
Public transit0.0%0

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 Pacific County, the county holding most of Ocean Park's residents.

Pacific County has 558 employer establishments, 231 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 0.89× Washington's), with 4,695 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,565. The Census Bureau also counts 1,588 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 558; 1,588 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 231; US 248 · Washington 258
Paid employees: 4,695
Average annual pay: $43,565; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	56	23.1	1.26×More than typical	524	$26,740	10
Construction of buildings	34	14.1	1.86×More than typical	119	$40,689	44
Specialty trade contractors	34	14.1	0.91×About typical	177	$50,780	71
Full-service restaurants	30	12.4	1.61×More than typical	298	$29,963	5
Traveler accommodation	30	12.4	6.87×More than typical	357	$32,359	21
Lessors of real estate	24	9.9	0.81×About typical	142	$44,852	168
Ambulatory health care services	18	7.4	0.36×Fewer than typical	234	$58,282	55
Snack and non-alcoholic beverage bars	18	7.4	2.94×More than typical	118	$25,966	—
Religious organizations	15	6.2	1.12×About typical	67	$16,119	—
Grocery and convenience stores	14	5.8	1.95×More than typical	189	$41,688	5
Banks and credit unions	13	5.4	1.66×More than typical	70	$45,900	—
Other specialty trade contractors	12	5	1.98×More than typical	52	$34,481	35

Rank places for an industry Open Pacific County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 24,197 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 Ocean Park, 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

14.2KFY2017
-123.1FY2018

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 Ocean Park, Washington, so they do not add up across cities.

Ocean Park, Washington's figures are part of those of Pacific County, WA ($8.1M 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: Ocean Park is mostly in Pacific County.

See federal money in Pacific 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.

Ocean Park, 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.

Pacific County60100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Pacific 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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