Fact text

  • Artondale Creek is a known salmon spawning site that flows right through the neighborhood before emptying into Wollochet Bay.
  • A working cow farm sits along a main road, serving as a living, mooing reminder of the area's farming roots.
  • The local Grange hall does double duty as a community center, hosting everything from Girl Scout meetings to full-on Haunted Houses.
  • Kopachuck State Park, right across the street from two schools, is the only state park on the entire Gig Harbor Peninsula.
  • On rare hot days above 85°F, locals scramble to the nearest body of water since air-conditioning in homes is genuinely hard to find.
Your
Artondale
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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14024
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Total Population
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$
126054
Median Income
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$
509500
Median Home
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19
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Artondale
ranks for retirees?
54
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
79
Affordability
43
Healthcare
43
Climate
46

Results

Artondale

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
79

Washington levies no state income tax, meaning Social Security, pension payments, and IRA or 401(k) withdrawals are all free of state-level taxation.

State sales tax here runs about

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
79
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
43

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
43
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
43

The area has

5

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
46

A

Temperate

climate — summers peak near

73

°F, winters dip to about

37

°F, with roughly

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Temperate
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively High

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