Parking Tickets, we all love parking tickets, right? (not really) Visiting Seattle can be very difficult because you have to find parking, it’s not easy. When was the last time you got a parking ticket in Seattle?
If you live in the Seattle area, it may have been earlier this year.
According to Seattletimes.com,‘From Jan. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025, nearly 650,000 citations were issued in Seattle, according to data from the Seattle Municipal Court. The data also shows that tickets accumulate at some addresses much more than others.You might think the city’s top spots for parking tickets would be somewhere downtown or on Capitol Hill. But no, Seattle’s top parking-citation address isn’t a high-traffic business district.’
Watch out for these locations.
The most parking tickets will be Issued near recreational locations in the Seattle area. For instance, near Green Lake at 7201 Green Lake Drive N. 308 parking tickets were written there over the course of the year.
If you were visiting Discovery Park in Seattle, you might have gotten a ticket at 3801 Discovery Park Blvd. 349 parking tickets were written there for this last year.
It’s interesting that none of the locations that ranked highest in parking tickets was in a downtown location with parallel parking. If you want to avoid a parking ticket, keep this in mind the busiest days for parking tickets, Tuesday through Friday. Wednesday is the worst day for parking tickets in Seattle…