Hillside Bellingham overlooking the bay

Bellingham Neighborhoods Guide: All 22 Neighborhoods Compared (2026)

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Every neighborhood on the map. Filter for what matters to you and watch the pins narrow; click any pin to see how that neighborhood scores and jump to its full guide.

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Every school in Bellingham

All 22 Bellingham Public Schools, with their GreatSchools rating, grades, and size. Bellingham assigns schools by your exact home address — so for the schools tied to a specific house, use the district’s official locator.

Looking up a specific address? The district’s locator returns the assigned elementary, middle, and high school for any home.

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Top-rated school at each level

The highest GreatSchools rating in each grade band, and the neighborhood where that school is located. (Location, not an attendance area — assignment is by address.)

Where in Bellingham

Find your corner of Bellingham.

Twenty-two distinct neighborhoods, from the brick streets of Fairhaven to the quiet shores of Lake Whatcom. Each one has its own feel, its own price point, and its own kind of buyer. Pick the kind of life you are after — then dig into the full guide.

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That is the conversation I have every week. Tell me how you want to live and I will point you to the two or three neighborhoods that actually fit — and what is for sale in them right now.

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Aerial map of Bellingham, Bellingham Bay, Lake Whatcom and the farmland north toward Ferndale and Lynden
Bellingham and the country north of it — the bay, Lake Whatcom, and the I-5 corridor toward Ferndale and Lynden.

Go deeper: the ZIP guides for 98225, 98226 and 98229 map the neighborhoods to the postal lines — and the lifestyle guides answer “where do people like us land?”

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