Neighborhood Snapshots
The Neighborhood Snapshots use demographic data from US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) and boundaries based on Community Reporting Areas (groupings of census tracts). Because of this, the neighborhood boundaries in the snapshots do not necessarily follow local ideas about neighborhood borders.
For example, the Census Bureau does not know where Judkins Park ends and the Central District begins. And, frankly, you and your neighbors might disagree on that topic, too. With that in mind, think of the snapshots as providing a rough idea of the demographics of an area by showing data for a collection of Census tracts that loosely approximate the neighborhood. If the boundaries in a snapshot don’t show enough of the neighborhood you’re interested in, we suggest also looking at snapshots for adjoining areas. See the notes on the right side of this webpage titled Neighborhood Boundaries for more information.
We have not yet created Snaposhots for all neighborhoods. For the moment, we prioritized neighborhoods based on the following criteria:
- Includes major transit activity and infrastructure
- Has a large City project that would impact it within the next three years
- Has a high population of historically underserved communities
Neighborhood Snapshots
- Ballard
- Beacon Hill
- Belltown
- Broadview / Bitterlake
- Capitol Hill
- Central Area
- Chinatown International District / Pioneer Square
- Columbia City
- Delridge
- Downtown Commercial Core
- Duwamish / SODO
- First Hill
- Georgetown
- Green Lake
- Greenwood / Phinney Ridge
- Highland Park
- Interbay
- Judkins Park
- Lake City
- Mt. Baker / North Rainier
- Northgate
- Othello
- Queen Anne
- Rainier Beach
- Ravenna / Bryant
- Roxhill / Westwood
- Seward Park
- South Lake Union / Denny Triangle
- South Park
- University District
- Wallingford
- Wedgewood / View Ridge
- West Seattle Junction / Genessee Hill
Interested in learning more history about Seattle's neighborhoods? Check out the Neighborhood History Project on Seattle Public Library's Digital Collections page.
Neighborhood Profile Builder
Use data from the American Community Survey to look up demographics, housing, race and ethnicity, language, income, and much more. You can also see trends over time.