Census-designated place · Kitsap County, Washington

Silverdale, Washington

Silverdale is a census-designated place in Kitsap County, Washington, part of the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA metro area. It has 20,685 residents. Silverdale, Washington has a quality-of-life score of 82 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,891 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Washington it ranks #56 of 395 cities and towns. It ranks best on median Air Quality Index (low), child poverty rate (low) and physical inactivity (low). It ranks worst on distance to an emergency room (high), mental health care shortage (high) and pharmacies (low).

82Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,891 of 15,651 cities and towns
Washington: #56 of 395 in WA
Population: 20,685 (2020-2024)
Land area: 13 mi²
Density: 1,637.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 5364365

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.

Safety65#5,394/15,637
Economy87#2,068/15,631
Housing27#10,931/14,977
Health78#3,479/15,609
Healthcare51#7,731/15,650
Environment97#449/15,453
Education75#3,929/15,649
Infrastructure95#860/15,650
Community54#7,253/15,651
Leisure & amenities54#7,159/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Median Air Quality Index · low22
97/100Washington 382025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyKitsap County value
Child poverty rate · low4.3%
95/100Washington 11.5%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Physical inactivity · low16.0%
92/100Washington 19.0%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Hot days · low3 days
91/100Washington 13 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationKitsap County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,807 /100k
90/100Washington 1,865 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKitsap County value
Broadband subscriptions · high96.2%
90/100Washington 93.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Weaknesses

Distance to an emergency room · high12.7 mi
11/100Washington 7.1 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesKitsap County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Washington 9.7United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationKitsap County value
Pharmacies · low1.0 /10k
15/100Washington 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsKitsap County value
Home price to income ratio · high5.3×
16/100Washington 5.8×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Time spent in the emergency room · high205 min
19/100Washington 156 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesKitsap County value
Students per teacher · high17.3×
19/100Washington 17.9×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsKitsap County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
46.0% (2015-2019) → 53.5% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$77,299 (2015-2019) → $105,483 (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
28.1% (2015-2019) → 33.1% (2020-2024)
+5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
4.3× (2015-2019) → 5.3× (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
93.3% (2015-2019) → 96.2% (2020-2024)
+3 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
33.6% (2015-2019) → 36.3% (2020-2024)
+2.7 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, Silverdale, Washington improved on 2 of 15 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 10 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved2

Household income+36%$77,299 → $105,483
Broadband+3 points93.3% → 96.2%

Declined2

Price / income+1.0×4.3× → 5.3×
Transit use−2.7 points5.6% → 2.9%

All 15 measures

Change of every measure of Silverdale, Washington between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.8 min2015-2019	24.0 min2020-2024	−2.8 min	Within the margin of error	78%
Bachelor's degree or higher	33.6%2015-2019	36.3%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Broadband subscriptions	93.3%2015-2019	96.2%2020-2024	+3 points	Improved	20%
Child poverty rate	5.7%2015-2019	4.3%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Effective property tax rate	1.02%2015-2019	0.70%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	77%
High school diploma or higher	95.0%2015-2019	93.9%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Home price to income ratio	4.3×2015-2019	5.3×2020-2024	+1.0×	Declined	24%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3962015-2019	0.3832020-2024	−0.013	Within the margin of error	62%
Median household income	$77,2992015-2019	$105,4832020-2024	+36%	Improved	68%
Poverty rate	5.8%2015-2019	6.2%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Public transit commuters	5.6%2015-2019	2.9%2020-2024	−2.7 points	Declined	11%
Rent as share of income	28.1%2015-2019	33.1%2020-2024	+5 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Rent-burdened households	46.0%2015-2019	53.5%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Unemployment rate	4.3%2015-2019	5.4%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.7%2015-2019	6.7%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%

“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 Silverdale, Washington five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Silverdale, 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, Silverdale, Washington itself moved −2.8 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

20,685 residents (±962)

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

8,602 households (±425)

Silverdale, Washington
Washington share

Under $25k7.6%652
$25k–50k14%1,163
$50k–75k13%1,106

Homes

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

Owners and renters

8,602 households (±425)

Silverdale, Washington
Washington share

Own52%4,487
Rent48%4,115

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

10,269 workers (±621)

Silverdale, Washington
Washington share

Drive alone75%7,722
Carpool10%1,058
Public transit2.9%†297

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 Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, 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 Kitsap County, the county holding most of Silverdale's residents.

Kitsap County has 6,272 employer establishments, 226 for every 10,000 residents (0.91× the US rate of 248; 0.88× Washington's), with 63,168 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,842. The Census Bureau also counts 17,739 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,272; 17,739 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 226; US 248 · Washington 258
Paid employees: 63,168
Average annual pay: $52,842; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	510	18.4	1.00×About typical	7,653	$27,725	55
Specialty trade contractors	492	17.7	1.15×About typical	2,968	$64,952	683
Ambulatory health care services	481	17.3	0.83×About typical	4,829	$68,780	1,002
Lessors of real estate	409	14.7	1.20×About typical	908	$65,331	1,932
Construction of buildings	384	13.8	1.83×More than typical	1,572	$67,694	442
Services to buildings and dwellings	255	9.2	1.36×More than typical	1,237	$37,002	801
Real estate agents and brokers	213	7.7	1.58×More than typical	211	$75,507	651
Full-service restaurants	212	7.6	1.00×About typical	3,602	$32,356	22
Offices of other health practitioners	201	7.2	1.19×About typical	989	$47,393	676
Management, scientific and technical consulting	181	6.5	0.97×About typical	601	$86,631	986
Limited-service restaurants	175	6.3	0.79×Fewer than typical	2,910	$23,537	20
Landscaping services	157	5.7	1.62×More than typical	682	$43,183	292

Rank places for an industry Open Kitsap County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 277,358 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 $7.2M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Silverdale, Washington: $350 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $7.2M; −76% vs FY2025
Per resident: $350; US $1,994
Sole-source: 27%; US 30%
Single offer: 17%; 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

Department of the Navy$4.4M61%
Defense Logistics Agency$2.5M35%
National Park Service$96.2K1.3%
Department of the Army$82.6K1.1%
Defense Microelectronics Activity$80.8K1.1%
Department of Veterans Affairs$16.9K0.2%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$13.2K0.2%
U.S. Coast Guard$1,3850.0%

Top recipients

EHB SUPPLY$2.5M34%
SKOOKUM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS$1.8M25%
CAPE-WESTON JV3 LLC$1.6M21%
APPLIED TECHNICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$623K8.6%
EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, INC., PBC$232K3.2%

Spending by fiscal year

15.9MFY2017
15.8MFY2018
13.3MFY2019
18.2MFY2020
14.6MFY2021
17.9MFY2022
4.4MFY2023
7.6M

Top industries (NAICS)

Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$1.8M25%
Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$1.8M25%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$703.8K9.7%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$683.8K9.5%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325$346.8K4.8%
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Silverdale, Washington

REGIONAL FACILITIES SERVICE CONTRACT RECURRING WORK, BRIDGE AWARD FY 25 TASK ORDER FUNDING AWARD$30.6M
SKOOKUM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS· Kitsap County, WA· Facilities & utilities· Mar 20, 2025 – May 29, 2026· N4425525F4201
REGIONAL FACILITIES SERVICES CONTRACT RECURRING WORK, EXTENSION, FY25 TASK ORDER AWARD$14.5M
SKOOKUM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS· Kitsap County, WA· Facilities & utilities· Dec 19, 2024 – Jun 4, 2026· N4425525F4001
NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER PANAMA CITY DIVISION (NSWC PCD) SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT LABORATORY SUPPORT$5.1M
APPLIED TECHNICAL SYSTEMS, INC.· Kitsap County, WA· Professional services· Dec 9, 2022 – Jun 5, 2026· N6133123F3001

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 Silverdale, Washington, so they do not add up across cities.

Silverdale, Washington's figures are part of those of Kitsap County, WA ($1B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.7% of that total.

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

See federal money in Kitsap 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.

Silverdale, 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.

Kitsap County88100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA91

Other cities and towns in Kitsap 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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