Maple Valley is a growing community nestled between the Cascade foothills and Puget Sound. Maple Valley maintains a small town community feel. It has a beautiful back drop of Mt Rainer and forests of evergreens. Maple Valley is a small suburb to Seattle that has a population of approximately 28,000 people. Maple Valley is rated in the top 10 best towns for families by Family Circle magazine in 2011 for it's unique combination of top rated schools, affordability, location to major cities and low crime rate. It was also named in the top 10 best places to raise kids in Business Week magazine in 2013.