City safety & data profile
Hazel DellWA
Hazel Dell, WA is a 19K-resident city in Clark County with a median household income of $86,305.
Clark County, Washington. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Hazel Dell, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Hazel Dell has a population larger than 42% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $455,500, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 19K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 43%
- By size
- $86,305
- Median income (place)
- $455,500
- Median home (place)
- 9.8%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Hazel Dell
Hazel Dell posts a median household income higher than 57% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Hazel Dell area.
- Top 43%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Hazel Dell
Composite score · Hazel Dell, WA
50/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Compare against every tracked city: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Hazel Dell income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$86,305 Top 43% higher than 57% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Biggest cities by headcount in WA
109 WA places (10,000+ residents, ACS income on record), sorted by population. Hover a bar for its income rank in this pool.
- Seattle
Seattle, WA
780,995 residents
- Spokane 229,447
Spokane, WA
229,447 residents
- Tacoma 222,906
Tacoma, WA
222,906 residents
- Vancouver 196,442
Vancouver, WA
196,442 residents
- Bellevue 139,820
Bellevue, WA
139,820 residents
- Kent 126,952
Kent, WA
126,952 residents
- Everett 108,010
Everett, WA
108,010 residents
- Renton 100,242
Renton, WA
100,242 residents
- Federal Way 95,171
Federal Way, WA
95,171 residents
- Spokane Valley 94,919
Spokane Valley, WA
94,919 residents
What this shows By headcount, Seattle ranks #1 here -- income honors go to Sammamish.
Top earners by city in WA
Median household income across 109 tracked WA places. Hover a bar for its population rank.
- Sammamish
Sammamish, WA
$239,690 median
- Mercer Island
Mercer Island, WA
$219,069 median
- Snoqualmie
Snoqualmie, WA
$214,107 median
- Cottage Lake
Cottage Lake, WA
$213,106 median
- Mill Creek East
Mill Creek East, WA
$192,937 median
- Maltby
Maltby, WA
$185,457 median
- Union Hill-Novelty Hill
Union Hill-Novelty Hill, WA
$185,369 median
- Bainbridge Island
Bainbridge Island, WA
$172,188 median
- Bellevue
Bellevue, WA
$165,576 median
- Woodinville
Woodinville, WA
$164,398 median
What this shows Sammamish leads this pool on median income; Seattle is the population leader instead.
The quick read
Reading Hazel Dell, WA beyond the headline numbers
Hazel Dell sits inside Clark County, Washington, at roughly 45.67°N, -122.66°W. Population 19,435, $86,305 median household income. Median home value $455,500, median rent $1,753. Poverty rate 9.8%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Hazel Dell (nearest 4.1 mi away), 3.5/5 avg rating, 3 with an ER. Climate: 51°F annual average, 42.2" precipitation.
8.2% unemployment puts Hazel Dell in the toughest quarter of reporting cities for job availability.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 12% in Hazel Dell, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
The median home in Hazel Dell costs around 5.3 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
Median rent in Hazel Dell, WA runs $1,753/month, above the midpoint for reporting cities -- worth weighing against the income figures on this page.
16.2% of Hazel Dell workers are remote, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
27.2% of Hazel Dell adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
At 9.8%, poverty in Hazel Dell, WA runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Hazel Dell from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
A Decade of Change 2013–2024
County-level trend (Clark County): Hazel Dell's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Money & Work
Hazel Dell's poverty rate of 9.8% runs 21% below the tracked-city average, the most notable of the economic figures Areazine tracks here. Median rent also diverges: $1,753/mo, 14% above average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 9.8% -21% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 8.2% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 27.2% |
| Work From Home | 16.2% |
| Public Transit | 1.6% |
By the Numbers
Community Health 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Closest Hospitals 5 within 25 mi
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 20245.4% above national average
Metro area: Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelClark County has recorded 9 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $26K in payouts since 2016.
No single named event dominates this county's claim history: most are individual, unnamed flood losses.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Hazel Dell?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Hazel Dell right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet WA-HAZEL-DELL · Hazel Dell
Hazel Dell: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Hazel Dell; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Washington state hubs · Methodology
Questions & Answers 9
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Comparable cities by poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Hazel Dell, both outside Washington so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside WA (9.8% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside WA ($86,305 here).
Compare Hazel Dell with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Turning this into a research checklist
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Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Clark County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.