ZIP profile

Banking access in ZIP 98247

Washington · Whatcom WA. Source year 2025.

Non-desert with desert exposure

The published Financial Access Pressure Index is 6.79. Higher values indicate more measured physical banking-access pressure. This measure does not identify bank branches, drive-through hours, individual banking behavior, or overall neighborhood quality.

Banking-access measures

Pressure index6.79
National pressure rank#4,923 of 20,307
National percentile73.24
State pressure rank#122 of 387
State percentile62.79
Weighted banking-desert geography6.79%
Weighted potential-desert geography0.00%
Population banking-desert exposure3.81%
Population potential-desert exposure0.00%
Allocated population7,682.18
Allocated population in banking deserts292.42

Geographic shares and population shares use different denominators. Published ranks and percentiles are preserved, including ties. Population estimates are displayed to two decimals; exact source values are in the downloads.

People & financial access

Estimated population-group exposure to banking-desert geography. These are allocated estimates, not counts of unbanked people. Groups overlap and must not be added together.

Population groupRepresented estimateExposed estimateExposure shareEvidence tier
American Indian / Alaska Native non-Hispanic189.401.290.68%LIMITED
Asian non-Hispanic160.854.462.77%LIMITED
Black non-Hispanic25.240.000.00%LIMITED
Residents with disabilities1,085.2480.207.39%STANDARD
Hispanic995.2411.021.11%LIMITED
Older residents1,258.9368.245.42%STANDARD
Other race non-Hispanic0.000.00UnavailableNOT_AVAILABLE
People of color1,700.0921.811.28%STANDARD
Two or more races non-Hispanic320.195.041.57%LIMITED
White non-Hispanic5,982.09270.614.52%HIGH

Evidence tiers are passed through from the source. Missing ranks or rates remain unavailable. A zero exposure share does not guarantee that a branch is open or nearby.

Source year: 2025 in the governed ZIP profile view. Exported October 13, 2026; the export date is not an observation date. Population figures are allocated estimates; groups can overlap. Sources and interpretation →