Living in Renton, WA

King County

Renton hosts Boeing's 737 final-assembly factory -- a real, currently active and currently ramping production site, with three production lines that increased from 42 to 47 aircraft per month during 2026 after Boeing completed the FAA's capstone review process -- a genuinely distinct identity from Everett's own wide-body/military-program Boeing plant, covered separately in the companion everett-wa.js record. This record corrects a commonly-outdated claim still repeated by some tertiary sources: Boeing Commercial Airplanes' division HEADQUARTERS is no longer in Renton. Starting in 2020, Boeing began relocating Commercial Airplanes leadership away from its 173-215-acre Longacres campus, and sold the property itself to Unico Properties in 2021 for $100 million -- Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal now works from an office at the Boeing Field 737 delivery center in Seattle. Unico is redeveloping Longacres into a mixed-use project with nearly 3,000 apartment units and an entertainment/arts district, and in 2024 sold the campus's largest building to Alaska Airlines, which is investing $100 million to convert it into a flight training facility. None of this affects the still-active 737 assembly factory itself, a separate site. Renton hosts several real, genuine corporate headquarters of its own beyond Boeing: Wizards of the Coast (Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons), Providence Health System's centralized administrative offices, Washington's only IKEA (399,000 square feet), and the Seattle Seahawks' headquarters and training facility (the Virginia Mason Athletic Center). Renton carries genuine Lake Washington waterfront access via its Kennydale neighborhood, where frontage properties command $900,000+ prices, within a citywide housing market running $657,750 (median) to $720,080 (average, Zillow-modeled), both running modestly down year-over-year. Rent ran a real, meaningfully high $2,270/month overall as of June 2026 -- 16% above the national average -- with rental houses ($3,299 median) running considerably above apartments ($2,104 median). Renton School District carries a solid B grade, with 41% math and 48% reading proficiency, running modestly above the neighboring Kent School District's figures. Crime is disclosed honestly rather than smoothed over: Renton's overall crime rate (36 per 1,000) runs among the higher rates nationally, and the city is separately noted for one of the nation's higher motor-vehicle-theft rates -- a real, specific vulnerability this record does not omit.

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Housing

Median sale price$657,750

Taxes

Local effective property tax rate0.83%

Not independently sourced at the King County level this session. Washington carries no income tax statewide. See the Washington hub page for the statewide property tax context -- do not treat that figure as Renton-specific.

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The tradeoffs

Pros

No state individual income tax; a real, currently active and currently ramping Boeing 737 assembly factory anchoring genuine aerospace-manufacturing employment; a genuinely diverse corporate-headquarters base beyond Boeing (Wizards of the Coast, Providence Health System, Washington's only IKEA, the Seattle Seahawks' training facility); real Lake Washington waterfront access via the Kennydale neighborhood; a solid B-grade school district running modestly above neighboring Kent's proficiency figures; and genuine, practical proximity to both Sea-Tac and Renton Municipal Airport.

Cons

A real, disclosed elevated crime rate -- among the higher rates nationally -- including one of the nation's higher motor-vehicle-theft rates specifically, disclosed here honestly; rent running a real, meaningfully high $2,270/month overall (16% above the national average) as of June 2026; a real, disclosed 5.4% year-over-year decline in Zillow's average home value alongside a more modest median-price decline, meaning a prospective buyer should confirm which figure and trend applies to a specific target property; and Renton's combined 10.5% sales tax runs among the higher rates in this Washington build. Anyone assuming Boeing Commercial Airplanes' division headquarters remains in Renton should understand that leadership relocated to Seattle's Boeing Field starting in 2020 and the former Longacres headquarters campus was sold in 2021.

Who this fits

Best for: Best fits aerospace-manufacturing workers connected to Boeing's real, currently ramping 737 assembly factory; young professionals and workers drawn to Renton's genuinely diverse corporate-headquarters base (Wizards of the Coast, Providence Health System); Lake Washington waterfront-lifestyle buyers with the budget for Kennydale-area pricing; and families prioritizing Renton School District's solid, above-Kent-average proficiency figures.

Maybe not for you if: Probably not the right fit for anyone prioritizing a low crime rate above other factors without weighing Renton's real, disclosed elevated crime statistics honestly -- including its specific, higher-than-typical motor-vehicle-theft exposure. Anyone relocating specifically because they believe Boeing Commercial Airplanes' corporate headquarters remains in Renton should confirm current facts first, given the real, disclosed 2020-2021 relocation to Seattle. And anyone anchoring to Renton's average (Zillow-modeled) home-value figure should note its real, disclosed 5.4% year-over-year decline running faster than the citywide median price's more modest drop.

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Last reviewed: 2026-08-25. Independent research; see individual metric entries above for source attribution. This is not financial, tax, or legal advice -- confirm current figures with a local professional before making a decision.