Yo dawg, I herd you like maps, so I put a map in your blog so you can map while you price.
In a big surprise to nobody, the most expensive zip code in the area is downtown Seattle’s 98101, with a whopping $482 median price per square foot. Of course, that actually looks cheap compared to the pricing on new construction condos downtown, but I digress.
Here are the top ten most-expensive zip codes in King / Snohomish / Pierce, by median price of home sales over the last three months:
| Zip | ‘Hood / City | Sales | Med. $/SqFt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98101 | Downtown Seattle | 83 | $482 |
| 98039 | Medina | 19 | $429 |
| 98121 | Belltown | 59 | $376 |
| 98004 | Bellevue | 240 | $353 |
| 98102 | Capitol Hill | 72 | $317 |
| 98112 | Madison Park | 117 | $315 |
| 98109 | East Queen Anne / SLU | 120 | $299 |
| 98104 | Pioneer Square / First Hill / International District | 25 | $287 |
| 98119 | West Queen Anne | 108 | $283 |
| 98107 | Ballard | 101 | $275 |
And here are the top ten least-expensive zip codes in King / Snohomish / Pierce, by median price of home sales over the last three months:
| Zip | ‘Hood / City | Sales | Med. $/SqFt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98409 | South Tacoma | 73 | $67 |
| 98408 | South End (Tacoma) | 84 | $75 |
| 98444 | Parkland | 60 | $80 |
| 98404 | Eastside (Tacoma) | 141 | $82 |
| 98360 | Orting | 57 | $85 |
| 98405 | Central Tacoma | 73 | $86 |
| 98418 | Lincoln (Tacoma) | 36 | $86 |
| 98168 | Riverton / Seatac | 106 | $88 |
| 98201 | Everett | 84 | $90 |
| 98424 | Fife | 22 | $90 |
Okay that was almost all Tacoma. How about the ten least-expensive zip codes in King County:
| Zip | ‘Hood / City | Sales | Med. $/SqFt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98168 | Riverton / Seatac | 106 | $88 |
| 98188 | Seatac | 59 | $92 |
| 98003 | Central Federal Way | 115 | $94 |
| 98002 | Auburn | 94 | $98 |
| 98198 | Des Moines | 116 | $98 |
| 98023 | West Federal Way | 163 | $99 |
| 98032 | West Kent | 75 | $106 |
| 98022 | Enumclaw | 68 | $107 |
| 98030 | East Kent | 115 | $107 |
| 98047 | Pacific | 38 | $108 |
South King County with the sweep.
Thanks for the info. Well done.
According to this article people who live in downtown Seattle are in the top 2% for having cancer in the nation at 396 people per million and some of the worst air quality. Expensive doesn’t denote quality, it denotes ‘full’… move out somewhere else and get some fresh air.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002823121_toxic23m.html
RE: corndogs @ 2 – Well said. And while we are at it, let’s ban diesel exhaust spewing trucks. I really enjoy getting dosed with the stuff by UPS as they drive by. Sadly, the city of Sammamish also uses these cancer causing vehicles. And it is also bad for blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
“Acute exposure to diesel exhaust is associated with an immediate and transient increase in arterial stiffness. This may, in part, explain the increased risk for cardiovascular disease associated with air pollution exposure.”
http://www.particleandfibretoxicology.com/content/6/1/7
Well at least renting beats owning
http://blogs.smartmoney.com/advice/2012/06/21/5-housing-markets-where-renting-beats-owning/5/
RE: corndogs @ 2 – How do you know it’s the air? What about being bombarded by other things, like very strong TV signals?
By Passed Doo @ 1:
Well done? That map doesn’t even show I-90!
Does this sq. ft. price include the garage area?
RE: turf @ 7 – What garage? /sarc
RE: Kary L. Krismer @ 5 –
If you read what I wrote, I didn’t imply one caused the other. Just making a point that $/sq ft does not correlate to desirability as much as it does lack of supply. It’s the same mentality of people who flock to Bumbershoot to wait in one line to get a corndog and then turn around to get in the other line to wait and use the sani-can… the whole process actually sucks but seems desirable to some because everyone else is doing it…..
RE: Kary L. Krismer @ 5 – Starting at 1:13.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPdoE9lWaI&feature=fvwrel
RE: corndogs @ 9 – I tend to prefer less populated areas too, so I get that. Although many of the very young and very old probably prefer more populated areas. When you’re young it’s nice being walking distance to Broadway or Qwest Field. When you’re old it’s nice to be close to healthcare.
“Well done? That map doesn’t even show I-90!”
A little drive on I-90 might do ya good.
Just keep going East until the poles end.
RE: Blurtman @ 3 – Yes, UPS is known to run their trucks into the ground, rebuild them, then run them into the ground again. This means that some of their rigs have older, dirtier engines. Just be happy they are not running the old screaming Detroit Diesels of days gone by. The old 2-stroke Detroits were very very efficient at turning diesel fuel into smoke and noise.
RE: Blurtman @ 10 –
You’ll get a thumbs up from me every single time you link to a clip from They Live. I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum.
RE: corndogs @ 2 – Could it be cancer patients living in the city while getting treatments? There are a number of cancer care centers clustered downtown.
Typo: herd for heard.
RE: Sotocapo @ 16 – Guess you didn’t click the “yo dawg” link…
RE: corndogs @ 2 –
Yes Corndogs
Albeit, you’re insulting the “3 dollar bill Democrat environmentalists” in Seattle and other “like Republican globalists” who consider your pragmatic statement simply insulting. Look at the down thumbs we’ll get.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/324642/China-warns-on-air-quality-reports/
RE: wreckingbull @ 13 –
Forget the Cars Wrecking Bull
Its the diesel shipping tankers in Puget Sound I’d worry about.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html
Did you have a historical chart of price per square foot?
I’m interested in pricing from say 1996 forward, particularly 1998 forward, but 1996 is the last market that I felt pricing was cheap by comparison to other costs.
RE: softwarengineer @ 19 – I think you do have to take into account a few factors, such as concentration of the carcinogens and other toxic elements of diesel exhaust and duration of exposure. For example, if you live some distance from the ships but are constantly breathing the diluted toxins versus if you receive a high dose of toxic gas from a UPS truck that is driving by. In the case of the latter, it seems that an acute effect is arteriole constriction, possibly leading to a heart attack in those pre-disposed. It seems that chronic exposure to diluted toxic gas, such as those living near docked ships, would lead to cancer and pulmonary disease. Anyway, it seems like a no-brainer that the stuff is bad, and that no one has a right to harm the health of others in the pursuit of recreation, income or locomotion. Libertarians especially should be against toxic diesel exhaust. I wonder, as the owners of such vehicles including ships know that the vehicles are spewing toxic gas, if they could be sued for assault.
RE: corndogs @ 2 –
I noticed in that article that they used several stricter measures to come up with their calculation for air pollution here. Ok, that’s fine, but it begs the question: did they use that custom calculation for all the other counties when they came up with that “top 2%” number? Or, did they compare their new “strict” calculation to the rest of the nation using the EPA’s original (less strict) calculation? I’m always suspicious when newspapers do their own “studies”.
By Ira Sacharoff @ 14:
Shades of Rowdy Roddy Piper, when he was a wrestler here in the Northwest in the ’70s and ’80s.
RE: Question Mark @ 23 – And let’s not forget George “The Animal” Steele and his unrequited love for Randy “Macho Man” Savage’s lady Elizabeth. Touching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTKcaY2iiw
Federal Way is the new Ballard.