Find out what the numbers tell us about Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle Times' FYI Guy, Gene Balk, and other contributors comb data sets to look at the numbers behind news topics -- especially those that offer insight into the quality of life and cost of living in the Seattle area.
While Seattle is once again the fastest-growing big city in the U.S., Portland is shedding residents, shows new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Boy and girl names derived from a tree were among Washington parents' most-used choices in 2022. (Hint: not madrona or magnolia.) FYI Guy Gene Balk...
The boom times aren't over just yet, FYI Guy writes, with a rate of growth comparable to what we saw in the 2010s. This news...
A new report shows some downtowns have fully bounced back, or even exceeded, their pre-pandemic levels of activity, FYI Guy writes. Others, like Seattle, have...
Despite Seattle's famously expensive housing market, the number of young adults living with parents is relatively low. FYI Guy Gene Balk has a theory about...
A new poll of Washington residents shows a slight majority would exit the state if they could — and there is a huge gap along...
When a city gets a new professional sports team, it only makes sense that local interest in that sport will increase, writes FYI Guy. That's...
In King County, home-owning millennials remain very much in the minority, data columnist Gene Balk finds. But in neighboring counties, it's a different picture.
Roughly 19 cars and trucks were stolen every day, on average, in Seattle in 2022, writes FYI Guy. That adds up to the highest number...
Veterans have been housed at higher rates than the general homeless population, and some officials want to replicate the success of a federal and local...
