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.
Seattle's income gap between top and bottom income groups, while big, is far from the largest. FYI Guy delves into the data to explain why.
When it comes to the gender gap in Seattle's tech jobs, not much has changed in the past decade, FYI Guy writes.
About half of Washington's nursing homes report being short staffed, about three times more the low short-staffing levels near the start of the pandemic.
FYI Guy takes a look at what may be impacting homeownership rates among adults under 35 years old (in addition to skyrocketing home prices).
Take a look back at how reproductive rights have evolved in Washington state with this timeline.
If the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade, is overturned, abortion could become even more scarce and more women would be forced to travel...
The impact of Elon Musk taking control of Twitter may hit harder in Seattle than many other parts of the country because, as it turns...
Seattle University's Public Safety Survey showed that in 2021 fear of crime in Seattle was at its lowest level since the survey was first published...
New data shows that in most of the nation's largest metro areas, including Seattle, the coronavirus pandemic put a damper on people's plans to move,...
Statistics show disproportionately high numbers of people of color have been shot by Seattle officers in recent years and that Black people are subjected to...
