Fact text

  • On opening night of Ocean Shores' first celebrity nightclub, chartered planes flew in Hollywood stars and 11,000 people showed up to catch a glimpse.
  • The entire city was built on a cattle ranch sold in 1960 for $1 million, with the very first lots hawked from a travel trailer parked in the sand dunes.
  • Early lots sold for just $595 apiece, sight unseen, from plat maps alone, and buyers were fine with that.
  • Pat Boone moved in as a local stockholder in 1967 and literally hosted Celebrity Golf tournaments to help sell the place.
  • By 1969, Ocean Shores was declared the 'richest little city' per capita in the entire country, with just 900 permanent residents.
Your
Ocean Shores
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
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6196
+
Total Population
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$
47003
Median Income
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$
250800
Median Home
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41
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Ocean Shores
ranks for retirees?
34
/ 100

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

Tax
79
Affordability
21
Healthcare
9
Climate
15

Results

Ocean Shores

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
79

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

State sales tax here runs about

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
79
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
21

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
21
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
9

The area has

2

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

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

Weather & Comfort

Climate
15

A

Temperate

climate — summers peak near

66

°F, winters dip to about

38

°F, with roughly

3

″ 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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