Marysville, Washington

Area Profile

73,002 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Marysville, in Snohomish County.

60out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 47% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2381st of 3,904 published cities51
GrowthTop 21% of 2,973 published cities67
Housing affordability3173rd of 4,223 published cities63
ClimateTop 35% of 4,223 published cities74
Physical resilience2735th of 4,182 published cities45
Access3465th of 4,226 published cities76
Economic stabilityTop 25% of 4,226 published cities72
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.0% and median household income $103,974, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Residential permitting has slowed: 510 units authorized over the past twelve months, 24% below the prior year.

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 5.5 times that income.

At a glance

Population
73,002
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$103,974
Top 17% nationally
Density
3,518/sq mi
20.8 sq mi of land
Median age
38.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Snohomish County
Washington
Metro area
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Nearest major airport
BFI
39 mi · Boeing Fld/King County Intl
Median home value
$567,900
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 38,941 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,111$103,974Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,896$43,234Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.1%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute33.4 minTop 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher24.3%Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment38,941Bottom 44%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.6%Top 26%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.5%Bottom 33%June 2026
Labor force40,998Bottom 44%June 2026
Labor force participation67.8%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$91,790Top 8%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$72,610Top 4%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.1%Top 49%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.0%Top 25%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/067.13.7
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 5.0% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024104k89k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $103,974 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.

There are 18.5 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
25
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Marysville Getchell High SchoolMarysville School District1,38125.6
Marysville Pilchuck High SchoolMarysville School District1,18219.4
Cedarcrest SchoolMarysville School District70422.7
Lakewood Middle SchoolLakewood School District66820.9
Marysville Middle SchoolMarysville School District65621.2
Totem Middle SchoolMarysville School District52217.4
Quil Ceda Tulalip ElementaryMarysville School District49814.2
Kellogg Marsh Elementary SchoolMarysville School District46816.1
Sunnyside ElementaryMarysville School District45218.1
Allen Creek Elementary SchoolMarysville School District43716.2
Pinewood ElementaryMarysville School District39818.1
Liberty ElementaryMarysville School District39814.7

54.7% 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 $1,997 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.5 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
23.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,997
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$567,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.46Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate69.4%Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±52226,663Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$79$1,997Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,050$567,900Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.0%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2.6%Bottom 18%2024 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 →
Development Momentum
67/ 100
Top 21% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing — 2 consecutive years, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 7% since 2020, reaching 76,209 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 17% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 7.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
510
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
7.0
Top 21% nationally
Year over year
−24%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
17.1%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202476k71k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025768366
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+65%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 72°F and January a low of 37°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 33.4 inches.

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

30°50°70°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station EVERETT SNOHOMISH AP, 13.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index59.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation33.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low37°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high72°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index38.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing24°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

45 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeHigh
Heat waveModerate
Volcanic activityModerate
AvalancheModerate

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

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 Marysville rather than Marysville 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 39 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Boeing Fld/King County IntlBFI39 mi10,007 ft
Seattle-Tacoma IntlSEA44 mi11,901 ft
Grant County IntlMWH145 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 Marysville
TacomaPierce County222,75857vs Marysville
BellevueKing County151,84760vs Marysville
KentKing County135,60349vs Marysville
EverettSnohomish County111,84554vs Marysville
RentonKing County105,31751vs Marysville
Federal WayKing County99,49349vs Marysville
KirklandKing County92,62160vs Marysville
AuburnKing County85,67652vs Marysville
RedmondKing County77,35364vs Marysville
South HillPierce County68,025vs Marysville
SammamishKing County66,46357vs Marysville

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)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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 Marysville

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9827055,049$108,14761
9827130,838$95,65457