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Clyde Hill, WA

Job growth outpaced population growth by 117 points in Clyde Hill.

Population
3,100
0% fewer from 2021 to 2026
Family households
—
±10 points at 90% confidence · too uncertain for ranking or interpretation
Local jobs
1,271
117% more from 2018 to 2023
Median income
—
City overview

The forces shaping Clyde Hill now.

01
The trajectory

Job growth outpaced population growth by 117 points in Clyde Hill.

Clyde Hill’s population fell <1% from 2021–2026; its workplace job count rose 117% from 2018–2023. The source periods differ because the two series are released on different schedules.

Clyde Hill’s faster-growing workplace base gives local businesses more daytime customers. It also makes inbound travel—including the resident connection to Seattle and nearby housing part of the city’s labor strategy.

Population: 2021–2026 · jobs: 2018–2023
02
The local economic engine

Roughly one in 2 Clyde Hill jobs belongs to information.

Clyde Hill contains 1,271 workplace jobs. Information accounts for 64% of them. Education is next at 17%.

Technology hiring and decisions about office attendance can quickly reach Clyde Hill’s housing demand, daytime businesses, and commute patterns.

Workplace jobs: 2023
03
The commute that shapes the city

Seattle matters more to Clyde Hill’s workday than its own city line does.

40% of observed resident job destinations are in Seattle, followed by Bellevue at 18%.

Current GTFS schedules 273 weekday stop departures at 10 stops inside Clyde Hill; 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?

3,100 residents are counted in the latest official state estimate, 0% fewer than in 2021. Survey measures appear here only when their uncertainty is small enough to describe the city confidently.

Average household size
2.7

±0.3 people at 90% confidence

Median age
48.6

±3.3 years at 90% confidence

Below poverty line
3%

Income alone does not describe wealth or local costs. ±2 points at 90% confidence

Residents, 2026
3,100

Official annual city estimate from Washington OFM.

Population composition

Who lives here

Estimated share of all Clyde Hill residents. Each percentage uses the city’s total population as its denominator.

White, non-Hispanic53% ±6 pts
Chinese, except Taiwanese17% ±4 pts
Two or more races, non-Hispanic8.8% ±5 pts
Asian Indian7.2% ±3 pts
Hispanic / Latino, any race4.1% ±2 pts
Filipino3.7% ±4 pts
Two or more Asian groups2.5% ±2 pts
Taiwanese2.1% ±2 pts
Korean1.1% ±2 pts
Japanese1.1% ±1 pts
Cambodian0.7% ±1.0 pts
Pakistani0.5% ±0.6 pts
Thai0.2% ±0.2 pts
Black, non-Hispanic0.0% ±0.4 pts
American Indian / Alaska Native, non-Hispanic0.0% ±0.4 pts
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic0.0% ±0.4 pts
Another race, non-Hispanic0.0% ±0.4 pts

0% published estimate: Hmong, Mongolian, Okinawan, Other East Asian, Burmese, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Singaporean, Vietnamese, Other Southeast Asian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Nepalese, 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
Clyde Hill 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.
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Work

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

Information (partial technology proxy) accounts for 64% of jobs located in Clyde Hill. The city’s job base changed +215% between 2010 and 2023.

Jobs by sector

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

Information (partial technology proxy)64%
Education (includes academia/research)17%
Professional Services (partial technology proxy)7%
Logistics / Industrial4%
Other3%

Historical employer snapshot

Official city employment structure; individual employers are grouped rather than ranked · Historical employer snapshot · 2019 jobs reported in the 2024 comprehensive plan. The source is older than the current employer publication window; headcounts are historical, not current.

The city publishes an employment total and employer types, but not a verified ranked list or organization-level headcounts.

City of Clyde Hill Comprehensive Plan land-use element ↗. 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: 13 homes were authorized in 2025, versus a recent pace of about 11 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$2M+Lower to upper quartile of owner estimates
Luxury-home concentration82%≈879 homes · estimated at $2M+
Under $500k14%
$500–749k0%
$750–999k0%
$1–1.49M3%
$1.5–1.99M1%
$2M+82%

These estimates are useful as a distribution, but the survey intervals are too wide to rank Clyde Hill 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.

The housing mix we can estimate confidently

This describes the existing stock. It does not imply that one building type is preferable.

Attached houses<1%
2–4 unit buildings<1%
5+ unit buildings1%
Homes authorized, 2025
13

Permit authorizations—not construction starts or completed homes.

Residential buildings, 2025
13

One building can contain one home or many housing units.

2023–2025 annual pace
11 homes

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

Recent pace vs prior 3 years
−8%

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?

Current transit schedules include 10 stops and 273 weekday stop departures inside Clyde Hill. The 2020–2024 ACS separately estimates how workers usually commuted; it does not count every transit trip or describe today's schedule.

Weekday departures
273

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

Transit stops
10

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

Top outside workplace
Seattle

40% of observed resident job destinations in 2023 LODES.

Where resident workers go

Top observed workplace destinations.

Seattle40%
Peak drive: 20–40 min
Bellevue18%
Peak drive: 5–20 min
Redmond13%
Peak drive: 15–30 min
Kirkland6%
Peak drive: 10–30 min
Renton3%

The strongest outside connection is Seattle. Employer or corridor changes there can alter everyday life in Clyde Hill, 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
5.6%

Usual commute mode—not all transit trips. ±3 points at 90% confidence

Households without a vehicle
2.0%

Households, rather than workers. ±1 points at 90% confidence

For someone choosing a home in Clyde Hill, 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 Clyde Hill—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.

Starting area
Downtown Seattle employment core

Seattle is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Clyde Hill, representing 37% of matched resident jobs from this city.

20–40 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.

Downtown Bellevue employment core

Bellevue is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Clyde Hill, representing 16% 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.

Overlake employment core

Redmond is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Clyde Hill, representing 12% of matched resident jobs from this city.

15–30 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.

South Kirkland employment core

Kirkland is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Clyde Hill, representing 6% of matched resident jobs from this city.

10–30 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 Clyde Hill; 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 Clyde Hill

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

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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 Clyde Hill.

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 elementary1
  • Clyde Hill Elementary SchoolBellevue School District
Public middle1
  • Chinook Middle School (Bellevue)Bellevue School District
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

Clyde Hill records relatively little retail activity for its population.

Retail sales per resident fall below 70% of the cities tracked by Metroscope. That may mean residents rely more on nearby cities for shopping, but sales records alone cannot prove where they shop.

Retail sales per resident, 2024
$7,527

Higher than 30% of 82 tracked cities.

Change from 2023
−2%

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

See the underlying sales totals
Retail trade, 2024
$23.3M

Sales reported by businesses classified in retail trade.

All taxable sales
$100.2M

Includes taxable activity outside retail trade.

Retail share
23%

Retailing industries’ share of all taxable sales.

Tracked-city median
$10,670

Median retail sales per resident across cities with comparable data.

Civic life

In Clyde Hill, voters directly choose who runs City Hall.

Clyde Hill 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
Dean Hachamovitch

The separately elected chief executive.

Council representatives listed
5

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

Incorporated
1953

Code city under Washington law.

Where decisions happen

When does the Clyde Hill council meet?

Regular meeting schedule listed in the current municipal directory:

2nd Tue - 6:00pm

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 Clyde Hill 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
3,100

0% fewer from 2021 to 2026

Local jobs
1,271

117% more from 2018 to 2023

Retail trade, 2023–2024
−2%

Nominal taxable-sales change; not adjusted for inflation.

Data & details — selected comparable metrics across 82 places
Local jobs
LODES
1,271
1,506656,821
Higher than only 0% of places
Long-run job change
LODES
+215%
−3%+166%
Higher than 100% of places
Weekday transit departures
GTFS snapshot
273
19256,385
Higher than only 8% 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
Information (partial technology proxy)64% (818)
Education (includes academia/research)17% (213)
Professional Services (partial technology proxy)7% (86)
Logistics / Industrial4% (48)
Other3% (32)
Government (Public Administration)1% (18)
Manufacturing (includes, but is not limited to, aerospace)1% (15)
Healthcare & Social Assistance1% (11)
Hospitality1% (11)
Construction / Real Estate0% (6)
Finance0% (6)
Retail0% (5)
Administrative & Support Services0% (2)
Where Clyde Hill's workforce lives (inbound)
LODES OD — commuting flows into local jobs
Seattle
30.6%
Bellevue
17.3%
Kirkland
9.5%
Sammamish
6.6%
Redmond
4.9%