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Car ownership keeps dropping in Seattle (www.seattlebikeblog.com)

submitted 9 months ago by chaospatterns@lemmy.world to c/seattle@lemmy.world

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About 74,000 households in Seattle are car-free, making up more than 20% of all Seattle households. A modern high point for the city’s car-free household rate, Seattle now ranks 9th among large U.S. cities by car-free household rate and 2nd for large U.S. cities west of the Mississippi behind only San Francisco [...].

Renters lead the way with 1 in 3 rental households having no cars, a strong data point to support easing or eliminating expensive parking requirements for new housing developments. By contrast, only 5% of owned households were car-free [...]

The data comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s household survey, so there is some statistical noise especially at the census tract level...

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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The sales contract used to forbid you from reselling it… but you would think potholes would have claimed a few by now 😉