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.
FYI Guy: At the beginning of this decade, there were more homes in Seattle with nine or more rooms than with one.
Commuting by public transit has hit an all-time high in the Seattle metro area, and we're also spending more than anywhere else to add more...
Last year, just 2.8 percent of workers who live in Seattle biked to work as a primary mode of transportation. The raw number of bike...
The median income for a married couple with kids in Seattle is now $161,000.
Depending on the job, people use different modes of transportation to get to work. Census data show which common jobs are most and least likely...
Washington has 2.7 million acres of forests susceptible to wildfires. A 20-year plan to restore health to 1.25 million of those acres isn't getting the...
From the start of May through August, Seattle easily logged the driest stretch dating to the start of 1948.
Despite record-breaking housing costs, the number of mortgage-free homeowners grew by 36 percent between 2010 and 2016. Why? Aging baby boomers and a rising number...
Federal and state standards for measuring air quality rely on the same methodology, but they have different meanings. An app that equates air quality with...
While millions of public dollars are going for bike lanes in Seattle, the city's data collection on actual bike-lane ridership is scattered and incomplete. Given...
