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.
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...
The Seattle area is among a handful of places at the forefront of the shift toward older motherhood. In King County, it's now more common...
When comparing 25- to 34-year-olds of today with those in 1980, big differences emerge. Millennials in Seattle are more likely to have high-paying jobs than...
Just 33.7 percent of Seattle-area households are air-conditioned. Here's who has A/C, who doesn't, and how readers say they cope when it sizzles.
