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.
Assuming the trend continues, renters will soon be in the majority in Seattle, something we haven't seen since before 1950.
Perhaps more than any other major U.S. city, Seattle has been this decade's demographic dynamo. While it's been exciting to watch it unfold, it's also...
The love for the Seahawks runs deeper in South King County than anywhere else. But what about in the city of Seattle? Not so much.
Seattle Public Schools has seen a continuing decline in its number of low-income students, but officials say that's unlikely to change the district's direction. Here's...
The report includes access to health care, quality of education, public safety, the state's economy, GDP growth, migration into the state, patents, new businesses, natural...
More than 700,000 people age 18 and older in the Seattle-Tacoma area — about 17% of the adult population — have consumed cannabis in the...
Seattle-Tacoma clocks in as the fifth-worst metropolitan area for packages being stolen from porches this year, according to an analysis by home security company SafeWise, which looked...
Seattle's 9 percentage-point drop is easily the largest decline among the 100 most-populous U.S. cities since the start of the decade. And we now have...
When the Seattle City Council switched from citywide to district elections, it had a couple unintended consequences. Some voters may not be too thrilled about...
We now rank 11th among the 50 largest cities for the percentage of car-free households. Since 2010, we've leapfrogged Miami, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Oakland,...