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Hunts Point, WA

Hunts Point has deliberately opted out of becoming a workplace destination.

Population
455
0% more from 2021 to 2026
Family households
—
±24 points at 90% confidence · too uncertain for ranking or interpretation
Local jobs
119
138% more from 2018 to 2023
Median income
—
City overview

The forces shaping Hunts Point now.

01
The employers behind the economy

Hunts Point has deliberately opted out of becoming a workplace destination.

Hunts Point contains 119 workplace jobs. Professional Services accounts for 34% of them. Logistics / Industrial is next at 24%.

The town has no commercial district, cannot expand its land area, and expects to restrict commercial development for the foreseeable future. Its economic geography is therefore almost entirely regional: jobs, shopping, and most services sit across the boundary while local tax revenue depends heavily on residential property and services delivered to homes.

Workplace jobs: 2023
02
The commute that shapes the city

Seattle matters more to Hunts Point’s workday than its own city line does.

38% of observed resident job destinations are in Seattle, followed by Bellevue at 20%.

Current GTFS schedules 0 weekday stop departures at 0 stops inside Hunts Point; 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
03
The trajectory

Job growth outpaced population growth by 138 points in Hunts Point.

Hunts Point’s population rose 0% from 2021–2026; its workplace job count rose 138% from 2018–2023. The source periods differ because the two series are released on different schedules.

Hunts Point is small enough that one development or employer can swing both rates. Treat this as a change to investigate, not yet a durable trend.

Population: 2021–2026 · jobs: 2018–2023
People

Who lives here—and which households shape demand?

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

Average household size
2.3

±0.3 people at 90% confidence

Residents, 2026
455

Official annual city estimate from Washington OFM.

Population change, 2021–2026
0%

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

Population composition

Who lives here

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

White, non-Hispanic70% ±20 pts
Chinese, except Taiwanese9.7% ±8 pts
Korean7.3% ±5 pts
Two or more races, non-Hispanic3.5% ±5 pts
Hispanic / Latino, any race3.1% ±3 pts
Asian Indian2.8% ±4 pts
Japanese2.1% ±3 pts
Vietnamese1.4% ±2 pts
Pakistani0.3% ±0.7 pts
Black, non-Hispanic0.0% ±4 pts
American Indian / Alaska Native, non-Hispanic0.0% ±4 pts
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic0.0% ±4 pts
Another race, non-Hispanic0.0% ±4 pts

0% published estimate: Hmong, Mongolian, Okinawan, Taiwanese, Other East Asian, Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Singaporean, Thai, 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, Two or more Asian groups. 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
Hunts Point 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?

Professional Services (partial technology proxy) accounts for 34% of jobs located in Hunts Point. The city’s job base changed +190% between 2010 and 2023.

Jobs by sector

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

Professional Services (partial technology proxy)34%
Logistics / Industrial24%
Administrative & Support Services11%
Other9%
Finance6%

Verified employer anchors

Official town land-use finding; Hunts Point has no commercial district · Current or recent profile · 2025 comprehensive plan. The stated employer vintage is within the current two-year publication window.

The town has no commercial district, cannot expand its land area, and expects to restrict commercial development for the foreseeable future. Its economic geography is therefore almost entirely regional: jobs, shopping, and most services sit across the boundary while local tax revenue depends heavily on residential property and services delivered to homes.

Because the town has no commercial district, it does not have a conventional local employer ranking to publish.

Town of Hunts Point 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: 2 homes were authorized in 2025, versus a recent pace of about 2 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 concentration78%≈90 homes · estimated at $2M+
Under $500k9%
$500–749k0%
$750–999k2%
$1–1.49M7%
$1.5–1.99M4%
$2M+78%

These estimates are useful as a distribution, but the survey intervals are too wide to rank Hunts Point 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 houses1%
Homes authorized, 2025
2

Permit authorizations—not construction starts or completed homes.

Residential buildings, 2025
2

One building can contain one home or many housing units.

2023–2025 annual pace
2 homes

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

Recent pace vs prior 3 years
+18%

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 Hunts Point’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

38% of observed resident job destinations in 2023 LODES.

Where resident workers go

Top observed workplace destinations.

Seattle38%
Peak drive: 15–40 min
Bellevue20%
Peak drive: 5–20 min
Redmond9%
Peak drive: 15–40 min
Clyde Hill5%
Peak drive: 5–20 min
Kirkland3%

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

How residents usually get to work

Hunts Point has 0 scheduled weekday stop departures at 0 stops in the current covered feeds. The household survey is too uncertain to describe the citywide commute-mode split confidently.

The useful next answer is route-specific: travel time, frequency, transfers, and walking distance from a particular home to a likely workplace.

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 Hunts Point—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.

Starting area
South Lake Union employment core

Seattle is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Hunts Point, representing 36% 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.

Downtown Bellevue employment core

Bellevue is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Hunts Point, representing 19% 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 Hunts Point, representing 8% 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.

Clyde Hill employment area

Clyde Hill is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Hunts Point, representing 4% 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.

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 Hunts Point; 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 Hunts Point

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 Hunts Point.

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

Hunts Point 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
$10,133

Higher than 48% 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
$4.6M

Sales reported by businesses classified in retail trade.

All taxable sales
$57.9M

Includes taxable activity outside retail trade.

Retail share
8%

Retailing industries’ share of all taxable sales.

Tracked-city median
$10,670

Median retail sales per resident across cities with comparable data.

Civic life

Hunts Point is governed as a town—not a city.

Hunts Point 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
Joe Sabey

The separately elected chief executive.

Council representatives listed
5

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

Incorporated
1955

Town town under Washington law.

Where decisions happen

When does the Hunts Point council meet?

Regular meeting schedule listed in the current municipal directory:

1st Mon - 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 Hunts Point 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
455

0% more from 2021 to 2026

Local jobs
119

138% 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
119
1,506656,821
Higher than only 0% of places
Long-run job change
LODES
+190%
−3%+166%
Higher than 100% 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
Professional Services (partial technology proxy)34% (41)
Logistics / Industrial24% (28)
Administrative & Support Services11% (13)
Other9% (11)
Finance6% (7)
Retail5% (6)
Hospitality3% (4)
Government (Public Administration)3% (4)
Construction / Real Estate3% (3)
Information (partial technology proxy)2% (2)
Healthcare & Social Assistance0% (0)
Education (includes academia/research)0% (0)
Manufacturing (includes, but is not limited to, aerospace)0% (0)
Where Hunts Point's workforce lives (inbound)
LODES OD — commuting flows into local jobs
Seattle
31.3%
Bellevue
17.7%
Kirkland
9.4%
Sammamish
7.3%
Clyde Hill
3.1%