What salary do you need to live in Bremerton, WA?

Rent, home values and prices in Bremerton

Census figures put the median gross rent in the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA metro at $1,448 for a one-bedroom, $1,780 for a two-bedroom and $2,217 for a three-bedroom. Moving from one to two bedrooms adds $332 a month, and the third bedroom another $437.

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the metro is $555,100. That works out to 5.3× the local median household income of $104,158, a mid-range ratio.

Price levels matter beyond rent. The Bureau of Economic Analysis measures Bremerton's overall prices at 105.6 on a scale where the nation is 100, which makes a $100,000 salary feel like about $94,691 would elsewhere.

Bremerton: the pre-tax income for each grade

For two bedrooms, $313,000 is where Bremerton turns Comfortable. Below that, $156,000 marks the start of Okay and $78,000 the start of Tight; under $78,000 the score reads Stretched. Rent at the Comfortable line is 7% of gross pay.

The Royal grade is within reach at $985,000 a year, where both rent and the median home price look small next to income.

How they were found: the same scoring function the calculator runs was evaluated at rising incomes until each cutoff was crossed, and the crossing rounded up to a whole $1,000.

Bremerton at four common salaries

Take a $75,000 salary. In a one-bedroom the rent share is 23% and the score 27, Tight; in a three-bedroom the share rises to 35% and the score falls to 21, Stretched.

Comfortable is above every row of the table here. At $150,000 a two-bedroom still grades Tight, with rent taking 14% of income.

Bremerton compared with every US metro

On price level Bremerton is 26th of 387 (1 = most expensive); on two-bedroom rent it is 27th, and on median home value 29th. The two rankings agree, both falling in the top 10%.

Next to Bremerton on the national rent ranking: Barnstable Town, MA ($1,785) and Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY ($1,759).

Bremerton next to Washington and similar metros

Compared with Washington as a whole, two-bedroom rent in Bremerton is about the same ($1,780 vs. $1,756) and the median home is about the same ($555,100 vs. $564,600).

Scored the same way, the statewide figures turn Comfortable at $324,000, so Bremerton needs $11,000 less than Washington overall.

The nearest matches in Washington, judged on rent and price parity together, are Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA, and Bellingham, WA.

The median Bremerton household

The median household in the metro earns $104,158 (ACS 2020-2024). Run through the calculator with two bedrooms, that scores 34, Tight. That falls $208,842 short of the $313,000 Comfortable line, a reminder that the typical household here spends a larger share on housing than the Comfortable band allows. For Washington as a whole, the median household income of $98,141 scores 31 against statewide rents. Since a household can have two or more earners, compare it with a combined income rather than one paycheck.

Treat every number here as a pre-tax, public-data estimate rather than financial advice.