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Clark County’s flagship 55+ community — 824 homes wrapped around a 9-hole golf course in southeast Vancouver, with a full clubhouse and the one advantage no Oregon community can offer: a state with no income tax.
Fairway Village is the Washington-side answer to Summerfield and King City — a well-established active-adult community of 696 single-family homes (roughly 1,140 to 2,358 square feet) and 128 condominiums (about 700 to 1,266 square feet), built mostly through the 1980s and 1990s around a 9-hole golf course. It sits in southeast Vancouver near the SE 164th Avenue interchange off SR-14, with a clubhouse at its center: pool, fitness room, library, billiards, card rooms, a ballroom, walking trails, and an active slate of clubs. On amenities and feel, it competes directly with the best Oregon-side communities.
The reason to look here is tax, not amenities. Fairway Village’s real differentiator isn’t the golf or the clubhouse — it’s that it’s in Washington. No state income tax means your Social Security, pension, and 401(k)/IRA withdrawals are untaxed at the state level, while a comparable Oregon resident pays up to 9.9%. For a retiree drawing meaningful taxable income, that gap can be worth more over a decade than any difference in home price. The full comparison is on our Vancouver vs. Portland tax guide.
Fairway Village runs on an HOA model, with single-family homes and condos carrying different dues (condos add building-level dues). The big structural difference from the Oregon communities isn’t the HOA — it’s the tax base underneath. Washington has no income tax, but it assesses property at full market value every year with no Measure 50–style cap, so you don’t inherit a compressed assessed value the way you would on an older Oregon home.
| Cost item | Structure | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| HOA fee | Community fee; condos add building dues | Clubhouse, pool, fitness, trails, clubs |
| Golf | 9-hole course on site | Public-access course; pay to play |
| Typical home price | $300Ks (condo) – $500Ks+ (SFH) | By home type and size |
| Property tax (Clark Co.) | ~0.85–0.95% of market value | Annual market-value assessment; no Measure 50 cap |
| State income tax | None | The headline advantage |
The clubhouse is the social hub — ballroom and events, indoor exercise, library, billiards and card rooms, a seasonal outdoor pool, and walking trails around the course and ponds. Residents run an active calendar of clubs and interest groups. Day-to-day, you’re minutes from the Vancouver Mall area, SR-14, and the I-205 bridge back into Portland, with PDX airport about 20 minutes away. (Note: a separate senior-living facility, Touchmark at Fairway Village, operates nearby and is a different thing from the active-adult homes — don’t confuse the two when searching listings.)
Fairway Village sits in southeast Vancouver, just north of the Columbia and a short hop from two bridges back into Oregon. You’re in the same metro — same airport, same Gorge, same Portland amenities — on the side of the river with no income tax. For the right income profile, that single fact is the whole case. See whether it pencils out for you on the true-cost breakdown.
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