# Seattle's human population is growing fast, but its car population has stalled out. Between 2017 and 2023, Seattle added 35,000 households and about 80,000 residents, but just 3,300 cars, new Census data has revealed -- in news that is music to urbanist ears.
The title may be wrong, the article says 35,000 households. Idk what the average household size is but just guessing 2 that would be 70,000 people, about a 10% increase on the city’s population of 780,000.
You have to also consider they’re talking about the city proper, the metro area is around 4 million people and that area probably gained a lot more cars as it’s mostly suburbs.
Isn’t 35000 people way too few for a big city in six years?
It’s about the cars, bruh
The title may be wrong, the article says 35,000 households. Idk what the average household size is but just guessing 2 that would be 70,000 people, about a 10% increase on the city’s population of 780,000.
You have to also consider they’re talking about the city proper, the metro area is around 4 million people and that area probably gained a lot more cars as it’s mostly suburbs.
The pandemic saw a lot of people moving out of higher-CoL areas. I wonder if that didn’t have a significant effect.