Maltby, Washington

Area Profile

10,910 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Maltby, in Snohomish County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2123rd of 3,904 cities measured54
Housing affordability2470th of 4,223 cities measured75
ClimateTop 35% of 4,223 cities measured74
Physical resilience2774th of 4,182 cities measured43
Access2737th of 4,226 cities measured88
Economic stabilityTop 22% of 4,226 cities measured73
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.0% and median household income $185,457, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Rent takes 14% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 5.4 times that income.

A typical July reaches 77°F and a typical January falls to 37°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
10,910
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$185,457
Top 2% nationally
Density
565/sq mi
19.3 sq mi of land
Median age
46.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Snohomish County
Washington
Metro area
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Nearest major airport
BFI
21 mi · Boeing Fld/King County Intl
Median home value
$1,002,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.0% is lower than 25% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.5% over the past year, to 432,289 employed residents.

47% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 87% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 98% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$20,885$185,457Top 2%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,864$77,403Top 5%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.9%Bottom 19%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.3 minTop 28%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher47.3%Top 13%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment432,289Top 17%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.1%Bottom 49%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.5%Bottom 33%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force455,204Top 17%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation63.1%Top 41%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$91,790Top 8%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$72,610Top 4%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.3%Top 40%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate5.0%Top 25%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024185k151k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $185,457 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Software Developers92,770$167,280
Home Health and Personal Care Aides54,670$48,210
Fast Food and Counter Workers49,190$39,150
Retail Salespersons46,620$42,080
Registered Nurses39,900$128,260
Business Operations Specialists, All Other38,800$101,920

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Snohomish County, WA, which contains this city.

There are 19.8 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Glacier Peak High SchoolSnohomish School District1,64225.3
Little Cedars Elementary SchoolSnohomish School District64617.5
Valley View Middle SchoolSnohomish School District64122.9
Cathcart ElementarySnohomish School District49717.1
Totem FallsSnohomish School District41214.7
Maltby ElementaryMonroe School District33415.2
Hidden River Middle SchoolMonroe School District31318.4
Open Doors Youth ReengagementSultan School District11

20.2% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Washington’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,158 takes 14% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.4 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
14.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,158
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$1,002,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.40Top 12%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate90.5%Top 21%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2594,001Top 14%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$188$2,158Top 7%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$55,490$1,002,100Top 2%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.0%Bottom 18%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.3%Bottom 21%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 77°F and January a low of 37°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.8 inches, including 3.8 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 38, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SEATTLE SAND PT WSFO, 10.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index59.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation37.8"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall3.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low37°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high77°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index38.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing25°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
38
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
59
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

43 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, landslide and heat wave.

LandslideModerate
EarthquakeHigh
Heat waveModerate
Volcanic activityModerate
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, ice storm, winter weather, lightning, coastal flooding, wildfire, tornado, cold wave, tsunami, drought, hail, strong wind.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Snohomish County records 1.5 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 10.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 27.9 per 100,000 residents in Snohomish County.

Homicide
1.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
10.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
27.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Snohomish County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Maltby rather than Maltby itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 21 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Boeing Fld/King County IntlBFI21 mi10,007 ft
Seattle-Tacoma IntlSEA26 mi11,901 ft
Grant County IntlMWH136 mi13,503 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
SeattleKing County754,19559vs Maltby
TacomaPierce County222,75857vs Maltby
BellevueKing County151,84760vs Maltby
KentKing County135,60349vs Maltby
EverettSnohomish County111,84554vs Maltby
RentonKing County105,31751vs Maltby
Federal WayKing County99,49349vs Maltby
KirklandKing County92,62160vs Maltby
AuburnKing County85,67652vs Maltby
RedmondKing County77,35364vs Maltby
MarysvilleSnohomish County73,00260vs Maltby
South HillPierce County68,025vs Maltby

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Maltby

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9829627,896$177,583