Seattle has changed a lot since the pandemic, and let’s face it — much of it hasn’t been good. The cost of living has somehow climbed even higher. Downtown is still struggling to fully recover, with fewer workers and retailers and emptier sidewalks than it once had. Reports of homeless encampments are at a record high. Thousands of tech workers have been laid off.
Despite all that, here’s something that hasn’t changed: People keep moving here.
New 2024 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey show about 51,800 people lived in a different state or a different country just 12 months earlier — that’s nearly 7% of the roughly 773,000 Seattle residents age one and older…