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Seattle has the largest African American population of any city in the Pacific Northwest, it is largely concentrated in the Central District, High Point and Rainier Beach neighborhoods, which are at least 15% Black. [citation needed]. While Seattle's Hispanic population is only 6.6%, it is largely concentrated on the city's South Park ...
Seattle's population historically has been predominantly white. [118] The 2010 census showed that Seattle was one of the whitest big cities in the country, although its proportion of white residents has been gradually declining. [119] In 1960, whites constituted 91.6% of the city's population, [118] while in 2010 they constituted 69.5%.
The Seattle metropolitan area is an urban conglomeration in the U.S. state of Washington that comprises Seattle, its surrounding satellites and suburbs. The United States Census Bureau defines the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA metropolitan statistical area as the three most populous counties in the state: King, Pierce, and Snohomish.
In June 2021, the Seattle City Council approved a plan to use $49 million of the $128 million from federal COVID-19 relief funds to support the city's homeless population. [58] The plan put money towards direct cash assistance and aid programs, housing resources, enhanced shelter and outreach services and small business recovery.
Seattle is working to make downtown more residential by converting empty office space into housing. ... Since 2023, the downtown area’s residential population has grown by more than 2,300 people.
The Eastside is to the right (east) of Seattle. The Eastside of the King County, Washington area in the United States is a collective term for the suburbs of Seattle located on the east side of Lake Washington. The most common definitions of the Eastside include the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish, Issaquah, Newcastle, and ...
The Seattle-based public policy think tank Discovery Institute conducted a spring 2024 survey of people living in both temporary shelters and transitional housing in Seattle. The survey found that ...
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office told The Center Square in an email that Harrell is continuing to focus on recruiting more women and the city’s 2025-2026 budget has funded dedicated staff ...