Driving the news: The number of people living in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area increased by 66,666 from 2023 to 2024 — a gain of about 1.6% — the Census Bureau said last week.

Seattle Metro. Dec 14, 2000, 12:01am EST. Updated Jun 6, 2013, 02:30pm EDT. This article is more than 10 years old. Share to Facebook; Share to Twitter; Share to Linkedin; ...

The Seattle Metro Chamber’s survey comes just a few weeks after the Downtown Seattle Association issued its own State of Downtown report, which showed residents and tourists returning to ...

The Seattle metro area has 17 "million dollar cities" as of February 2024 (it had 15 in February 2023). Statewide, Washington has 18 cities with a million-dollar stamp (it had 16 a year ago).

(Seattle Metro Chart) Not everyone is quite as sanguine. The overall “quality of life” score for the city is also up, but still low at 4.2 (0 is very negative, 10 is very positive).

Metro's daily ridership is nearly 700,000 people--that's more than the entire population of Seattle. In the summer tourists months, ... "We would not want a pop up far from the Metro.