Seattle, Washington

Profile:

Seattle, the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, is situated on Puget Sound in Washington State, 108 miles south of the U.S.–Canada border. First incorporated in 1865, Seattle started as a lumber town, cutting and shipping softwood from the huge stands of rainforest that covered the land.

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Since then the city has undergone several phases of economic boom and bust, remaking itself first as a staging-post for the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, then as a center of shipbuilding in the early 20th century. In World War Two Seattle became a departure point for soldiers fighting in the Pacific, and Boeing set up manufacturing facilities to make military planes there. Seattle was Boeing’s head office until 2001, and Boeing is still a major employer in the Seattle area.
Starting in the mid-1990s, Seattle became a hub of software development, home to companies such as Amazon.com, RealNetworks, and AT&T Wireless.

Population:

City of Seattle: 580,000 in 2006
Metro Seattle: 4 million

Interesting Facts:

The site of Seattle was first settled in 1851 by Arthur A. Denny and his party
The town’s first name was New York, later changed to Duwamps, and finally to Seattle, an anglicized spelling of the name of Noah Sealth, chief of the two Native American tribes living in the area
number of single-family new-home construction permits issued in 2005: 533. Average cost: $177,000.
Seattle’s official nickname is The Emerald City
Seattle is one of the few cities in North America that uses electric trolley-buses

Demographic:

As of the census of 2000, Seattle’s racial makeup was:
- 67.1% white
- 16.6% Asian
- 9.7% African American
- 4.5% of two or more races (mixed)
- 2.4% from “other races”
- 1.0% Native American
- 0.5% Pacific Islander
Seattle has the highest percentage of college graduates of any major U.S. city, according to the U.S. Census Bureau
Fraction of Seattle’s population that identify themselves as gay or lesbian: 12.9%, 2nd-highest among the 50 largest cities in the U.S., after San Francisco
The median age (estimated by the U.S. government in 2003): 36
Population that is 65 or older: 10.2%

Avg. Family Income:

Median income per household: $45,736
Median income per family: $62,195
Median income for men: $40,929
Median income for women: $35,134

Transportation:

Within Seattle transportation is mainly by automobile
Two commuter rail lines run south to Tacoma and north to Everett
The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, operated by the Port of Seattle, served 29 million passengers in 2005, making it the 17th-busiest airport in the U.S. and 30th-busiest in the world
The Port of Seattle handled 21 million metric tons of cargo in 2006, while an estimated 735,000 passengers passed through on cruise ships