Beautiful Seattle
Seattle is a city in the Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by water, mountains and evergreen forests, and has thousands of acres of green areas. It is the largest city in Washington state and is home to a large technology industry, with Microsoft and Amazon headquarters established in its metropolitan area. The futuristic Space Needle tower, a legacy of the 1962 World’s Fair, is its most iconic site.
The most important industries are Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services, Health Care & Social Assistance 55,880 people and Retail Trade. The best paid industries in the city are Information earning $100,700 annually, Professional, Scientific & Technical Services annual $96,000 and Utilities $93,600.
University of Washington-Seattle Campus is the institution with the largest number of graduating students with more than 13,000 degrees awarded. The median tuition cost in Seattle is $39,200 for private universities that includes four year colleges and $3,800 for public.
The median property value in Seattle, was $758,200 in 2018, which is 3.3 times larger than the national average of $229,700. The home ownership rate in Seattle is 44%, which is lower than the national average of 63.9%.