The rise and dramatic fall of King County’s black homeowners
The Boeing Boom elevated the Seattle area’s black homeowners. The tech boom? Just the opposite, as the region’s rate of homeownership ranks among the lowest...
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy
FYI Guy Gene Balk crunches the numbers. Gene has worked at The Seattle Times since 2002. He is a native of New Jersey, and earned a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Rutgers University. Before coming to The Times, he worked for the Orange County Register and the Baltimore Sun.
Are you a mega-commuter, traveling 90+ minutes one way? We want to hear from you | FYI Guy
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Seattle once again nation’s fastest-growing big city; population exceeds 700,000 | FYI Guy
For the first time, Seattle is adding more people on average each year than during the post-Gold-Rush boom years. We’ve never grown this fast, and...
Voters in Washington hated both Trump and Clinton more than in any other state | FYI Guy
New Census Bureau data show nearly 36 percent of the state’s registered voters who did not cast a ballot sat out because they didn’t like...
No Trump tidal wave: The college-educated powered Washington’s rise in white voters | FYI Guy
A wave in white, blue-collar voters never materialized in Washington in the 2016 presidential election. But the bump in college-educated whites could have helped Hillary...
Thanks to millennials, Seattle reverses a trend of rising car ownership | FYI Guy
For the first time since at least 1970, the percentage of Seattle households that own a car is declining. Census data show it’s all because...
Seattle, home of nature lovers, ranks 2nd in nation for sedentary jobs
Only Washington, D.C., has a higher concentration of workers who sit for five or more hours a day. “It’s a lot of sitting,� a software...
Seattle doctors make great money — but men make a lot more, study shows
A new nationwide study showed male doctors, across all medical specialties, make on average $90,000 more than their female counterparts.
Seattle millennials change homes here more often than anywhere else in U.S.
In a hypercompetitive rental market, the city’s young people are on the move, looking for cheaper rent, a nicer place or somewhere close to work....
Will the last middle-class person leaving Seattle turn out the lights? | FYI Guy
In Seattle’s massive economic and population boom this decade, the middle class has largely been left behind. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of Seattle...