City safety & data profile

ParklandWA

Parkland, WA is a 36K-resident city in Pierce County with a median household income of $72,239.

Pierce County, Washington. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Parkland, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Parkland has a population larger than 70% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $423,000.

Data updated 2026-09-04

36K
Population (place)
Top 30%
By size
$72,239
Median income (place)
$423,000
Median home (place)
13%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Parkland

Parkland posts a median household income higher than 40% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.

Bottom 41%
by median income, US cities

Where Parkland income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$72,239 Bottom 40% higher than 40% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Parkland $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-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

Largest cities in WA

Population among 109 WA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Seattle is the largest WA city on this list; Sammamish leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in WA

Median household income among the same 109-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Sammamish posts the highest place-level median income in WA; Seattle is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Parkland, WA beyond the headline numbers

Parkland sits inside Pierce County, Washington, at roughly 47.16°N, -122.43°W. Population 35,803, $72,239 median household income. Median home value $423,000, median rent $1,663. Poverty rate 13%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

Poverty in Parkland, WA stands at 13%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.

The median home in Parkland costs around 5.9 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.

Only 7.2% of Parkland workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.

Among the CDC measures on this page, frequent mental distress departs furthest from its peer median: 20.6% in Parkland, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

2.2% of Parkland workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.

Parkland's median age is 34.2 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Parkland 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.

Population (place)
35,803
Parkland · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$72,239
-19% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$423,000
Near average
Median Age (place)
34.2
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Pierce County): Parkland'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.

20132024
Population
930K+16%
Median Income
$99,564+68%
Median Home Value
$526,600+119%
Poverty Rate
8.8%-29%
Unemployment
4.9%-53%

Economics

Economics indicators for Parkland, WA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$1,663/mo
Poverty Rate
13% +5% vs avg
Unemployment 5.9%
Bachelor's Degree+ 17.5%
Work From Home 7.2%
Public Transit 2.2%

Population

White 49.7%
African American 15.4%
Asian 7.9%
Two or More Ethnicities 13.6%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
40.5%
Obesity
39.3%
High Blood Pressure
32.9%
Physical Inactivity
22.7%
Frequent Mental Distress
20.6%
Binge Drinking
16.5%
Frequent Physical Distress
15.2%
Current Smoking
13.7%
Diabetes
11.8%
Current Asthma
11.6%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 57.9%
Annual Checkup 69%

Other Measures

Lack of Health Insurance
11.2%
Coronary Heart Disease
5.5%
Stroke
3.3%

What alerts and safety updates affect Parkland?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Parkland right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet WA-PARKLAND-WA · Parkland

Parkland: 2 tagged alerts; lead category ECCC weather alert.

  • VOL-TRACE 2 on record
  • MIX-LED 100% ca-weather
  • DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ San Jose

Tagged alert mix: Parkland

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 2 tagged notices on record for Parkland.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: San Jose, CA (2 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Parkland; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Washington state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (2 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

San Jose, CA 2 alerts Fresno, CA 2 alerts Pittsburgh, PA 2 alerts York, PA 2 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 5

What is the population of Parkland, WA? ▼
Parkland, WA has a population of 35,803 people, located in Pierce County, Washington.
What is the median household income in Parkland? ▼
The median household income in Parkland, WA is $72,239 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 13%.
What is the median home value in Parkland? ▼
The median home value in Parkland, WA is $423,000. Median rent is $1,663/month.
What are the top health concerns in Parkland? ▼
The top health indicators in Parkland include Short Sleep Duration (40.5%), Obesity (39.3%), High Blood Pressure (32.9%). Data from CDC PLACES.
What is the median age in Parkland? ▼
The median age in Parkland, WA is 34.2 years. 17.5% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Parkland, both outside Washington so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside WA (13% here).

Garland, TX 13% Gresham, OR 13% Delray Beach, FL 13% Tamarac, FL 13%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside WA ($72,239 here).

Ives Estates, FL $72,239 Westchester, FL $72,262 Hurst, TX $72,210 Lewiston, ID $72,197

Compare Parkland with another city

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Nearby Cities 8

Spanaway, WA 27K Lakewood, WA 60K Frederickson, WA 19K Tacoma, WA 223K Elk Plain, WA 14K University Place, WA 33K Puyallup, WA 40K Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA 11K
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Using Parkland's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Parkland area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Parkland against Washington peers on any ranking lens. Explore Washington

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 (Pierce 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.