Burley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located just north of the boundary like Pierce County, about halfway along with Gig Harbor to the south and Port Orchard to the north. It is located at the head of the Burley Lagoon in Henderson Bay. Burley is a residential area. The community’s population stood at 2,057 at the 2010 census.

Burley was acknowledged in 1898 as a accepting socialist colony^:129–167 by a society called the Co-operative Brotherhood, an offshoot of the Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth that had customary Equality Colony elsewhere in Washington declare in the previous year. Both communities were portion of an attempt to forest socialist colonies in Washington in order to convert first the state, and next the entire nation, to socialism.^:55–113

Burley was originally named “Brotherhood”. Circle City was an area of the colony gone buildings laid out on the periphery of a circle. In its earliest years the community achieved a maximum population of approximately 150,^:145–146 but in the publicize of some supplementary planned towns of the time such as Equality Colony, its population endured a long grow less through the ensuing years. The local economy was dominated by the lumber industry; other businesses never flourished, though a cigar-manufacturing effort did reach some short-term success.^:150–151

Burley is in southern Kitsap County. It is bordered to the south by the Pierce County communities of Wauna and Purdy. Washington State Route 16 passes through the eastern side of Burley, leading north 9 miles (14 km) to Port Orchard and south 7 miles (11 km) to Gig Harbor. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Burley CDP has a total Place of 4.9 square miles (12.7 km²), of which 4.7 square miles (12.3 km²) are estate and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km²), or 3.04%, are water.