Everything else equal, we can all agree that living in a cheaper place is better than living in a more expensive place.
I’d much rather pay $500/mo in rent than $1,000. And I’d rather pay $2 for coffee than $5.
And while every neighborhood in Spokane might be more expensive than living in rural Washington, there are certain neighborhoods that are definitely cheaper.
What exactly are those Spokane neighborhoods where your dollar goes a little further — you can get that one bedroom instead of the studio?
Instead of relying on public opinion and speculation, we wanted to get the facts straight and determine which neighborhoods in Spokane are the cheapest using Saturday Night Science.
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Pick a metric. The bars rescale. The red line is Washington’s statewide median.
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Methodology: How we determined the cheapest Spokane hoods in 2026
To rank the cheapest places to live in Spokane, we had to determine what criteria define “cheap” and then apply Saturday Night Science.
Using Census and extrapolated BLS data, we arrived at the following set of criteria:
- Overall Cost Of Living
- Rent To Income Ratio
- Median Home Value To Income Ratio
We then ranked each neighborhood with scores from 1 to 27 in each category, where 1 was the cheapest.
Next, we averaged the rankings for each neighborhood to create a cheap neighborhood index.
And finally, we crowned the neighborhood with the lowest cheapest neighborhood index, the “Cheapest City Neighborhood In Spokane.” We’re lookin’ at you, Logan.
We updated this article for 2026. Skip to the end to see the list of all the neighborhoods in the city, from cheapest to most expensive.
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Detailed list of the cheapest neighborhoods to live in Spokane for 2026
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| Rank | Neighborhood | Cost Of Living Index |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Logan | 100 |
| 2 | Balboasouth Indian Trail | 114 |
| 3 | Hillyard | 97 |
| 4 | Northwest | 107 |
| 4 | North Hill | 102 |
| 6 | Manitocannon Hill | 120 |
| 7 | East Central | 104 |
| 7 | Minnehaha | 101 |
| 9 | Five Mileprairie | 125 |
| 10 | Chief Garry Park | 98 |
| 11 | Emersongarfield | 100 |
| 11 | Bemiss | 100 |
| 13 | Whitman | 98 |
| 14 | West Central | 99 |
| 15 | Lincoln Heights | 114 |
| 16 | Latah Valley | 111 |
| 17 | North Indian Trail | 122 |
| 17 | Cliffcannon | 112 |
| 19 | Nevadalidgerwood | 102 |
| 20 | Moran Prairie | 119 |
| 21 | West Hills | 115 |
| 22 | Comstock | 121 |
| 22 | Rockwood | 127 |
| 24 | Brownes Addition | 102 |
| 25 | Thorpewestwood | 119 |
| 26 | Peaceful Valley | 103 |
| 27 | Riverside | 118 |
Source: U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024. All 27 Spokane neighborhoods.
Summary
Summary: Lowest cost places to live in Spokane
If you’re measuring the neighborhoods in Spokane where prices are low, and it’s cheap to live, this is an accurate list.
The most affordable neighborhoods in Spokane are Logan, Balboasouth Indian Trail, Hillyard, Northwest, North Hill, Manitocannon Hill, East Central, Minnehaha, Five Mileprairie, and Chief Garry Park.
As mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in Spokane aren’t all cheap. Riverside takes the title of the most expensive neighborhood to live in Spokane.
We ranked the neighborhoods from cheapest to most expensive in the chart below. Not sold on Washington? Take the two-minute Find Your Place quiz and see which state actually fits you.
Questions and answers
Cheapest Neighborhoods In Spokane FAQs
What is the cheapest neighborhood in Spokane?
Logan is the cheapest neighborhood in Spokane for 2026. It posts the best combination of overall cost of living, rent against income, and home prices against income. Balboasouth Indian Trail and Hillyard are next.
What are the cheapest neighborhoods in Spokane?
The cheapest neighborhoods in Spokane are Logan, Balboasouth Indian Trail, Hillyard, Northwest, North Hill, Manitocannon Hill, East Central, Minnehaha, Five Mileprairie, and Chief Garry Park. We ranked all 27 neighborhoods in the city.
How do you decide which neighborhoods are cheapest?
Three measures: an overall cost of living index, rent-to-income, and home-value-to-income, all from Census tract data. Scoring costs against local incomes keeps one luxury tower from skewing the math.
Is a cheap neighborhood a bad neighborhood?
Not necessarily — this ranking measures what things cost relative to income, nothing else. Check our safest neighborhoods in Spokane ranking before you sign a lease, because cheap and safe are separate questions.
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Spokane?
Riverside lands at the expensive end of the 27 neighborhoods we scored. If your budget disagrees with it, the rest of the list runs cheaper.
