Homegrown Washingtonian likes Seattle’s geographic diversity
May 16, 2016, 12:36 PM | Updated: 1:45 pm
Seattle residents soak up the sun on Alki Beach. (AP)
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There’s an incredibly small number of Washingtonians living in Seattle.
Gene Balk of The Seattle Times found that, geographically speaking, Seattle is the third most diverse major city in the U.S.
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What might come as a surprise to some is that Seattle has one of the highest percentages of people living in a major city who weren’t born in that state. Balk writes that, when comparing two people, there is more than a 70 percent chance that they were not born in Seattle. And only about 38 percent of Seattle residents are from Washington.
It’s data that KIRO Radio’s Tom Tangney can appreciate.
Tom Tangney: I like that fact about Seattle.
Danny O’Neil: This gives no representation of someone’s tenure. I count as being geographically diverse, even though I’ve lived here since 1993. However, I was surprised about how many other parts of the country people are from.
Tom: We have the highest percentage of Midwesterners.
Danny: That would make sense.
The most geographically diverse place, according to Balk, is downtown between the waterfront and Fifth Avenue. The least diverse: the Fauntleroy neighborhood in West Seattle.
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