The city of Kennewick has once again made a national listing of the top 100 best places to live and is in the top three for the Pacific Northwest. 

Livability.com, a company that researches communities to aid municipalities with attracting and retaining residents and businesses, listed the Tri-Cities’ biggest city at No. 50 in its 2025 Top 100 Best Places To Live list. That’s up from the No. 60 spot it held in 2024. 

Vancouver came in as the top Pacific Northwest city, followed by Gresham, Oregon, and then Kennewick. The only other Washington city on the list, Spokane, came in at No. 6 for the region. 

Kennewick’s highest-ranked categories included the environment for minimal natural disaster risk, good air quality and reasonable population density; housing and cost of living for relatively affordable housing for renters and owners, taxes and modest cost of living; and transportation for multimodal transportation options such as roads, walking paths, bike paths and lanes, and short commutes. 

“The cherry on top? Because the Tri-Cities area is experiencing growth, there are ample job opportunities to advance your career,” read the company’s review.