39% of observed Medina resident jobs lead to Seattle; only 3% stay local.
39% of observed resident job destinations are in Seattle, followed by Bellevue at 17%. Only 3% are inside Medina.
Current GTFS schedules 616 weekday stop departures at 6 stops inside Medina; that supply still needs to be tested against the route to Seattle, the largest outside job destination. Schedule supply is not ridership.
Medina contains 693 workplace jobs. Professional Services accounts for 29% of them. Hospitality is next at 23%.
Demand for office and flexible workspace—and Medina’s ability to recruit specialized workers—will shape how durable that employment base is.
Taxable sales totaled $224.4M, 9% higher than the previous year. Retail trade produced 18% of that total.
More taxable activity gives Medina businesses and public services momentum. Openings, closures, and the next annual total will show whether the 9% gain is broad or temporary.
2,915 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.
±0.2 people at 90% confidence
±3.5 years at 90% confidence
Official annual city estimate from Washington OFM.
Change in official annual city estimates; boundary changes can contribute.
Estimated share of all Medina residents. Each percentage uses the city’s total population as its denominator.
0% published estimate: Hmong, Mongolian, Okinawan, Other East Asian, Burmese, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Singaporean, Other Southeast Asian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Nepalese, Sikh, Sri Lankan, Other South Asian, Afghan, Kazakh, Uzbek, Other Central Asian, Other Asian, 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.
Professional Services (partial technology proxy) accounts for 29% of jobs located in Medina. The city’s job base changed +151% between 2010 and 2023.
Workplace jobs inside the city—not the industries of residents who commute elsewhere.
Major local employers named by the city; no headcounts or ranking · Historical employer snapshot · 2015 comprehensive plan. The source is older than the current employer publication window; headcounts are historical, not current.
City of Medina Comprehensive Plan ↗. Headcounts change faster than Census employment totals.
The firmer current signal is construction intent: 7 homes were authorized in 2025, versus a recent pace of about 12 per year.
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.
These estimates are useful as a distribution, but the survey intervals are too wide to rank Medina 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.
This describes the existing stock. It does not imply that one building type is preferable.
Permit authorizations—not construction starts or completed homes.
One building can contain one home or many housing units.
Average housing units authorized per year across the latest three final annual estimates.
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.
Current transit schedules include 6 stops and 616 weekday stop departures inside Medina. The 2020–2024 ACS separately estimates how workers usually commuted; it does not count every transit trip or describe today's schedule.
Scheduled stop departures in the current covered-feed snapshot—not riders.
Matched inside city limits; nearby cross-border stops are separate.
39% of observed resident job destinations in 2023 LODES.
Share of observed resident job destinations located in the same city in 2023 LODES.
Top observed workplace destinations. 3% work inside Medina.
The strongest outside connection is Seattle. Employer or corridor changes there can alter everyday life in Medina, even when nothing changes inside the city boundary.
Medina has 616 scheduled weekday stop departures at 6 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.
Work destinations are selected from observed resident job flows. These are broad, reviewed planning ranges from representative parts of Medina—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.
Seattle is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Medina, representing 35% of matched resident jobs from this city.
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.
Bellevue is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Medina, representing 16% of matched resident jobs from this city.
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 is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Medina, representing 12% of matched resident jobs from this city.
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 is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Medina, representing 5% of matched resident jobs from this city.
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.
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.
Public schools, libraries, pharmacies, and listed everyday places show part of the local inventory inside Medina; 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.
Care, errands, food, fitness, and personal services gathered into one browsable directory.
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.
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.
None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.
None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.
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 sales per resident rank among the 67% highest of the cities tracked by Metroscope. The city appears to play more than a purely neighborhood retail role, but the sales records cannot identify who made the purchases.
Higher than 67% of 82 tracked cities.
Nominal retail-sales change; inflation can account for some or all of an increase.
Sales reported by businesses classified in retail trade.
Includes taxable activity outside retail trade.
Retailing industries’ share of all taxable sales.
Median retail sales per resident across cities with comparable data.
Medina voters elect the council, which hires a professional city manager to run administration. The mayor is selected from the council, so executive oversight works through the council rather than a separately elected chief executive.
The elected council hires and oversees the city manager.
Generally selected from the council—not a separately elected executive.
Current directory entries; vacancies or updates can make this differ from authorized seats.
Code city under Washington law.
Regular meeting schedule listed in the current municipal directory:
Schedules change and special meetings are separate. Check the city site for the live agenda, staff reports, public-comment rules, and video.
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.
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.
0% fewer from 2021 to 2026
85% more from 2018 to 2023
Nominal taxable-sales change; not adjusted for inflation.