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Beaux Arts Village, WA

Beaux Arts Village is a residential enclave by design, not a job center.

Population
310
2% fewer from 2021 to 2026
Family households
—
±27 points at 90% confidence · too uncertain for ranking or interpretation
Local jobs
20
33% more from 2018 to 2023
Median income
$248,750
±$59,880 at 90% confidence
City overview

The forces shaping Beaux Arts Village now.

01
The employers behind the economy

Beaux Arts Village is a residential enclave by design, not a job center.

Beaux Arts Village contains 20 workplace jobs. Administrative & Support Services accounts for 40% of them. Construction / Real Estate is next at 30%.

The town has no commercial development and does not issue business licenses, though tightly limited in-home work is allowed. Local employer rankings would therefore misdescribe the place: residents depend on Bellevue, Seattle, and other regional job centers while town government itself relies heavily on volunteers.

Workplace jobs: 2023
02
The commercial pulse

Beaux Arts Village’s taxable sales rose 61% to $14.0M.

Taxable sales totaled $14.0M, 61% higher than the previous year. Retail trade produced 25% of that total.

Beaux Arts Village’s increase can support city revenue and storefront demand, but inflation or a one-time project may explain part of the $14.0M total. Another year will clarify it.

Washington taxable sales, 2024
03
The commute that shapes the city

Seattle matters more to Beaux Arts Village’s workday than its own city line does.

35% of observed resident job destinations are in Seattle, followed by Bellevue at 27%.

Current GTFS schedules 0 weekday stop departures at 0 stops inside Beaux Arts Village; that supply still needs to be tested against the route to Seattle, the largest outside job destination. Schedule supply is not ridership.

Workplace flows: 2023 · commute modes: ACS 2024
People

Who lives here—and which households shape demand?

310 residents are counted in the latest official state estimate, 2% fewer than in 2021. Survey measures appear here only when their uncertainty is small enough to describe the city confidently.

Residents, 2026
310

Official annual city estimate from Washington OFM.

Population change, 2021–2026
−2%

Change in official annual city estimates; boundary changes can contribute.

Population composition

Who lives here

Estimated share of all Beaux Arts Village residents. Each percentage uses the city’s total population as its denominator.

White, non-Hispanic78% ±26 pts
Two or more races, non-Hispanic8.6% ±7 pts
Chinese, except Taiwanese4.7% ±5 pts
Two or more Asian groups3.9% ±6 pts
Hispanic / Latino, any race2.1% ±3 pts
Taiwanese1.3% ±3 pts
Black, non-Hispanic0.9% ±1 pts
Japanese0.4% ±0.9 pts
American Indian / Alaska Native, non-Hispanic0.0% ±6 pts
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic0.0% ±6 pts
Another race, non-Hispanic0.0% ±6 pts

0% published estimate: Hmong, Korean, Mongolian, Okinawan, Other East Asian, Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Singaporean, Thai, Vietnamese, Other Southeast Asian, Asian Indian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Nepalese, Pakistani, Sikh, Sri Lankan, Other South Asian, Afghan, Kazakh, Uzbek, Other Central Asian, Other Asian, specified, Other Asian, not specified. Zero is not proof that no residents identify with that group.

Some ranges are wide, which is common for smaller populations. Treat small differences as uncertain rather than as a precise ordering.

ACS 2020–2024 · 5-year estimates
Dataset
U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates · tables B03002 and B02015
Period
2020–2024
Geography
Beaux Arts Village Census place
Definition
Race and Hispanic/Latino origin are self-reported Census concepts. Hispanic/Latino may be of any race; the broad display uses non-Hispanic race categories plus Hispanic/Latino of any race.
Method
Every percentage is shown with its 90% margin of error. Detailed Asian estimates use the Asian-alone universe and are divided by the city population for display.
Open the official source ↗
Work

What powers the local economy—and how dependent is it?

Administrative & Support Services accounts for 40% of jobs located in Beaux Arts Village. The city’s job base changed +100% between 2010 and 2023.

Jobs by sector

Workplace jobs inside the city—not the industries of residents who commute elsewhere.

Administrative & Support Services40%
Construction / Real Estate30%
Other10%
Professional Services (partial technology proxy)10%
Government (Public Administration)10%

Verified employer anchors

Official town land-use and resident-work finding; commercial development is not permitted · Current or recent profile · 2024 comprehensive plan. The stated employer vintage is within the current two-year publication window.

The town has no commercial development and does not issue business licenses, though tightly limited in-home work is allowed. Local employer rankings would therefore misdescribe the place: residents depend on Bellevue, Seattle, and other regional job centers while town government itself relies heavily on volunteers.

The town’s plan confirms that there is no commercial development and therefore no conventional local employer list.

Town of Beaux Arts Village 2025–2045 Comprehensive Plan ↗. Headcounts change faster than Census employment totals.

Housing

What kinds of homes exist—and where is pressure showing?

The firmer current signal is construction intent: 1 homes were authorized in 2025, versus a recent pace of about 1 per year.

Home value profile

What owner-occupied homes are worth

Owner estimates from the 2020–2024 American Community Survey—not listings, recorded sales, or appraisals. The final Census band is open-ended: $2 million and above.

Median estimate$2M+Census top-coded at $2M+
Middle half of homes$1.4M–$2M+Lower to upper quartile of owner estimates
Luxury-home concentration58%≈45 homes · estimated at $2M+
Under $500k4%
$500–749k3%
$750–999k8%
$1–1.49M13%
$1.5–1.99M15%
$2M+58%

These estimates are useful as a distribution, but the survey intervals are too wide to rank Beaux Arts Village or identify one definitive value range.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year tables B25075–B25078. Values cover owner-occupied homes only and do not measure current asking prices or recent purchase prices.

What builders are proposing now

1 housing units across 1 residential buildings were authorized in 2025. 0 were in buildings with five or more units.

Authorizations are not starts or completions, but they are a more current signal of intended construction than an uncertain housing-mix estimate.

Homes authorized, 2025
1

Permit authorizations—not construction starts or completed homes.

Residential buildings, 2025
1

One building can contain one home or many housing units.

2023–2025 annual pace
1 homes

Average housing units authorized per year across the latest three final annual estimates.

Recent pace vs prior 3 years
+233%

2023–2025 average compared with 2020–2022.

Permit activity: U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, final annual estimate for 2025. Housing units authorized are not starts or completions.

Mobility

Where do residents need to go—and who has a real alternative to driving?

The current covered GTFS feeds matched no scheduled stop inside Beaux Arts Village’s boundary. That does not rule out service just outside the city or service absent from the covered feeds. The 2020–2024 ACS separately estimates how workers usually commuted; it does not count every transit trip or describe today's schedule.

Weekday departures
0

Scheduled stop departures in the current covered-feed snapshot—not riders.

Transit stops
0

Matched inside city limits; nearby cross-border stops are separate.

Top outside workplace
Seattle

35% of observed resident job destinations in 2023 LODES.

Where resident workers go

Top observed workplace destinations.

Seattle35%
Peak drive: 25–50 min
Bellevue27%
Peak drive: 5–20 min
Redmond9%
Peak drive: 25–50 min
Kirkland4%
Peak drive: 15–40 min
Renton3%

The strongest outside connection is Seattle. Employer or corridor changes there can alter everyday life in Beaux Arts Village, even when nothing changes inside the city boundary.

How residents usually get to work

Citywide ACS 2020–2024 estimates describe workers’ usual commute—not every trip made today.

Use public transit
0.9%

Usual commute mode—not all transit trips. ±2 points at 90% confidence

For someone choosing a home in Beaux Arts Village, the practical test is the trip to Seattle, the leading outside workplace destination in the published flows. These citywide shares cannot show whether that trip works from a particular address.

Typical drive times

About how long does it take to get where people go?

Work destinations are selected from observed resident job flows. These are broad, reviewed planning ranges from representative parts of Beaux Arts Village—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.

Starting area
South Lake Union employment core

Seattle is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Beaux Arts Village, representing 33% of matched resident jobs from this city.

25–50 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Downtown Bellevue employment core

Bellevue is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Beaux Arts Village, representing 26% of matched resident jobs from this city.

5–20 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Redmond employment area

Redmond is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Beaux Arts Village, representing 9% of matched resident jobs from this city.

25–50 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Kirkland employment area

Kirkland is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Beaux Arts Village, representing 4% of matched resident jobs from this city.

15–40 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Method, review date, and sources

Planning estimate; actual time varies by departure time, route, traffic, weather, incidents, and closures.

Estimates are derived from reviewed origin/destination coordinates using a documented distance-to-time heuristic (circuity factor and assumed effective speed by corridor type and period), then deliberately widened and rounded to a broad band. No live routing or traffic API was called.

Estimates reviewed 2026-09-10. Starting point: selected representative area.

City boundary and regional context● nearby   ● work destinations
Daily life

Community institutions and local activity

Public schools, libraries, pharmacies, and listed everyday places show part of the local inventory inside Beaux Arts Village; taxable sales show the scale and direction of local commercial activity. Residents also use places across city lines, so a boundary count is not the same as access.

Local field guide

Places for everyday needs in Beaux Arts Village

Care, errands, food, fitness, and personal services gathered into one browsable directory.

Hospitals0 in cityFind nearby
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Counts reflect current directory records associated with the city, not a complete business census or a measure of access. Large categories show a sample.

Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), snapshot 2026-08-13; Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-08-19.0; U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (NPPES NPI Registry), snapshot 2026-09-09.

Education footprint

The schools inside Beaux Arts Village.

Institution counts and enrollment will remain separate. A school can serve students from outside the city, and residents may attend a school across the boundary or elsewhere in their district.

Public elementary0

None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.

Public middle0

None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.

Public high0

None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.

Other public programs0

None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.

Public-school names and levels come from OSPI. Private schools, complete IPEDS college coverage, enrollment by level, and graduate destinations are active additions; absence here should not yet be read as “none.”

Retail role

Beaux Arts Village sits near the regional middle for retail activity per resident.

The sales total does not point strongly toward either a major regional shopping role or an unusually small local retail base.

Retail sales per resident, 2024
$11,433

Higher than 54% of 82 tracked cities.

Change from 2023
+17%

Nominal retail-sales change; inflation can account for some or all of an increase.

See the underlying sales totals
Retail trade, 2024
$3.5M

Sales reported by businesses classified in retail trade.

All taxable sales
$14.0M

Includes taxable activity outside retail trade.

Retail share
25%

Retailing industries’ share of all taxable sales.

Tracked-city median
$10,670

Median retail sales per resident across cities with comparable data.

Civic life

Beaux Arts Village is governed as a town—not a city.

Beaux Arts Village voters elect the mayor separately from the council. The mayor leads city administration, while the council adopts laws, policy, and the budget—so executive accountability sits directly with an elected office.

Government form
Mayor–Council

The mayor is separately elected to lead administration.

Mayor listed
Aletha Howes

The separately elected chief executive.

Council representatives listed
5

Current directory entries; vacancies or updates can make this differ from authorized seats.

Incorporated
1954

Town town under Washington law.

Where decisions happen

When does the Beaux Arts Village council meet?

Regular meeting schedule listed in the current municipal directory:

2nd Tue - 7:00pm

Schedules change and special meetings are separate. Check the city site for the live agenda, staff reports, public-comment rules, and video.

Official city site ↗Current officials directory ↗
Election record

Where to check Beaux Arts Village election results.

Regular municipal offices generally return in 2027. Special measures can appear earlier, and charter provisions can differ.

The next data step is city-specific turnout, contested-seat share, ballot measures, and campaign money. Until those are normalized, Metroscope links the official record instead of guessing from partisan elections.

Structure, meetings, and current officials: Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington (MRSC), checked 2026-09-08. Election administration and certified results: the county election offices listed above. Confirm live agendas and officeholders at the source.

Change

What is changing the city’s trajectory?

Population and jobs do not always move together. Reading both helps distinguish a growing employment center from a city whose households are increasingly tied to opportunities elsewhere.

Residents
310

2% fewer from 2021 to 2026

Local jobs
20

33% more from 2018 to 2023

Retail trade, 2023–2024
+17%

Nominal taxable-sales change; not adjusted for inflation.

Data & details — selected comparable metrics across 82 places
Local jobs
LODES
20
1,506656,821
Higher than only 0% of places
Long-run job change
LODES
+100%
−3%+166%
Higher than 92% of places
Weekday transit departures
GTFS snapshot
0
19256,385
Higher than only 0% of places
Multifamily permitting
Census BPS
Near a 15-year low
Recent annual pace compared with this city's own 2010–2025 record
2BR Fair Market Rent
HUD, county-level
$2,549
FY2027 HUD program benchmark; chart shows FY2020–FY2027 history. Shared across this HUD metro area—not a place-specific market rent.
Work — sector breakdown
Share of local jobs by sector · LODES · workplace location, not resident industry
Administrative & Support Services40% (8)
Construction / Real Estate30% (6)
Other10% (2)
Professional Services (partial technology proxy)10% (2)
Government (Public Administration)10% (2)
Finance0% (0)
Manufacturing (includes, but is not limited to, aerospace)0% (0)
Logistics / Industrial0% (0)
Education (includes academia/research)0% (0)
Healthcare & Social Assistance0% (0)
Hospitality0% (0)
Retail0% (0)
Information (partial technology proxy)0% (0)
Where Beaux Arts Village's workforce lives (inbound)
LODES OD — commuting flows into local jobs
Seattle
46.7%
Bellevue
13.3%
Issaquah
13.3%
Newcastle
6.7%
Everett
6.7%