SeattleWA

The quick read

Reading Seattle, WA beyond the headline numbers

Seattle sits inside King County, Washington, at roughly 47.61°N, -122.33°W. Population 780,995, $123,860 median household income. Median home value $938,600, median rent $2,030. Poverty rate 9.9%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

9 hospitals in/around Seattle, 3.8/5 avg rating, 6 with an ER.

At 9.9%, poverty in Seattle, WA runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.

The median home in Seattle costs around 7.6 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.

34.8% of Seattle workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.

Among the CDC measures on this page, diabetes departs furthest from its peer median: 6.1% in Seattle, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,711 cities reporting that measure.

11.9% of Seattle workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Seattle from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.