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Originally Posted by InlandEmpire
I read that Seattle's downtown population is around 33,000; the downtown employment number was around 160,000 or so. Just something I found online while reading an article about Seattle's mayor wanting to double the downtown population within the next few years. I'm not sure what boundaries they used for this so I'll have to look into it.
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The Downtown Seattle Association came up with a figure of 46,484 residents in 2000, growing to 54,572 in 2005. That includes census tracts that generally go to Broadway on the east and Mercer or Roy on the north. It also includes a giant amount of industrial land with a little slice of Beacon Hill. Delete tract 93 and the new figure is around 51,700 in 1,750 acres or so, or about 18,900 per square mile. (roughly double DT Minneapolis' density figure and less than half of Vancouver's)
The employment number for 2003 was 192,000 not including tract 93, or 230,000 including it.
Fascinating:
http://www.downtownseattle.com/conte...oodProfile.cfm