Cost of Living
per year
per month
How Bremerton's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Bremerton?
Your $100,000 in Bremerton has the same purchasing power as $89,127 in the average US city. You'd need $10,873 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
bachelor's or higher
Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
See a side-by-side breakdown of cost of living, housing, and salaries.
Popular comparisons
Sorted by affordability — most affordable first.
Within 10 points of Bremerton's cost index of 112, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Bremerton, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. Wage income stays untaxed at the state level and clean air, by the numbers lead — the rest unpacked below.
Wage income in Bremerton isn't taxed at the state level. Washington is one of the few US states with no income tax, which is one of the reasons people relocating from high-tax states tend to land here in the first place. (Washington taxes some long-term capital gains over a high threshold, but ordinary wages and salaries are not taxed.)
Average AQI in Bremerton comes in around 36, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Reasons are pulled from Bremerton's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Not really a snow town. With winters averaging 38°F, Bremerton sits in the mild-cold band where snowflakes appear occasionally and everything melts within a day. Most years see one storm worth talking about.
Cool, not cold. Winters in Bremerton sit around 38°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Warm without being brutal. Summer in Bremerton sits about 75°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Zone 9, give or take a half-zone. Bremerton's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 9 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Around 354 feet (108 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Bremerton's altitude shows up in daily life.
Worse than the national norm, but it depends where. Bremerton's ~4,707 per 100,000 reflects a citywide aggregate. Some neighborhoods here are notably safer than the average; others are notably worse. Worth looking at the specific area, not the city-level number.
More expensive than average — by enough to plan around. Bremerton's composite index is 112 versus 100 for the US, with rent and home prices driving most of the gap. Salaries in higher-paying industries usually move together, but the math still tightens for everyone else.
Bremerton's Walk Score is 0/100, firmly in the car-required tier. Transit Score is 0 out of 100. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $78,540 to live in Bremerton the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Bremerton runs about $1,413/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.