Microsoft is a city-shaping institution in Redmond.
Redmond contains 122,417 workplace jobs. Information accounts for 59% of them. Professional Services is next at 9%.
Microsoft is not merely Redmond’s largest employer; its campus workforce is larger than the next four employers combined many times over. The city’s housing, traffic, and daytime economy are unusually tied to one company’s choices.
Redmond’s population rose 13% from 2021–2026; its workplace job count rose 27% from 2018–2023. The source periods differ because the two series are released on different schedules.
With jobs moving 14 points faster than population, Redmond is likely to rely more on inbound workers. The practical test is whether those workers can reach—or afford to live near—the expanding workplaces.
There are 1.47 workplace jobs for every resident—122,417 jobs alongside a population of 83,320.
Redmond’s job-rich ratio creates daytime demand and inbound trips. It also raises the value of homes and transit that connect workers to its 122,417 jobs.
59% of households are estimated to be families. DigiPen Institute of Technology adds a postsecondary population that is not visible in the public-school count.
DigiPen Institute of Technology bring commuters, renters, and daytime customers into Redmond with needs unlike a conventional workforce. Student and staff counts are the next useful measure.
38% of workers report usually working from home. In the separate workplace-flow data, 29% of observed resident jobs are in Seattle and 15% are in Bellevue.
Remote-work policy and the trip to Seattle can therefore change demand for local cafés, office space, roads, and transit even when Redmond itself adds no new employer.
The typical household estimate is 2.3 people. 59% are estimated to be family households, while 32% are estimated to be people living alone.
±0.1 people at 90% confidence
±0.9 years at 90% confidence
±3 points at 90% confidence
Among residents age 25 and older. ±4 points at 90% confidence
Estimated share of all Redmond residents. Each percentage uses the city’s total population as its denominator.
0% published estimate: Okinawan, Other East Asian, Burmese, Mien, Other Southeast Asian, Bhutanese, Sikh, Other South Asian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Other Central Asian, Other Asian, specified. Zero is not proof that no residents identify with that group.
Information (partial technology proxy) accounts for 59% of jobs located in Redmond. The city’s job base changed +37% between 2010 and 2023.
Workplace jobs inside the city—not the industries of residents who commute elsewhere.
Jobs located in Redmond · Current or recent profile · 2025. The stated employer vintage is within the current two-year publication window.
Microsoft is not merely Redmond’s largest employer; its campus workforce is larger than the next four employers combined many times over. The city’s housing, traffic, and daytime economy are unusually tied to one company’s choices.
City of Redmond major employers ↗. Headcounts change faster than Census employment totals.
43% of occupied homes are estimated to be owner-occupied and 57% rented. The estimates suggest 36% of renter households and 19% of owner households spend at least 30% of income on housing.
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.
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.
±2 points at 90% confidence
Spending 30% or more of income on gross rent. ±5 points at 90% confidence
Spending 30% or more on selected owner costs. ±4 points at 90% confidence
Permit authorizations—not construction starts or completed homes.
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 269 stops and 17,567 weekday stop departures inside Redmond. 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.
29% 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. 34% work inside Redmond.
The strongest outside connection is Seattle. Employer or corridor changes there can alter everyday life in Redmond, even when nothing changes inside the city boundary.
Citywide ACS 2020–2024 estimates describe workers’ usual commute—not every trip made today.
Share of workers usually driving alone. ±3 points at 90% confidence
Share of workers usually working from home. ±3 points at 90% confidence
Usual commute mode—not all transit trips. ±1 points at 90% confidence
Share of workers with a one-way commute of at least 45 minutes. ±2 points at 90% confidence
For someone choosing a home in Redmond, 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.
Work destinations are selected from observed resident job flows. These are broad, reviewed planning ranges from representative parts of Redmond—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.
Redmond is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Redmond, representing 32% 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.
Seattle is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Redmond, representing 27% of matched resident jobs from this city.
Highway-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.25x circuity factor and an assumed 45 km/h peak-effective / 70 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 Redmond, representing 14% 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 Redmond, 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 Redmond; 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.
Floor area shows the scale of the physical branches. Physical circulation is 2024 checkouts—not visits, unique users, or digital borrowing—and people routinely use libraries across city lines.
All matched branches must report floor area before a city total is shown.
Annual branch activity; not limited to city residents. All matched branches must report before a city total is shown.
Source: Washington State Library public-library statistics, 2024. System-wide visits, digital circulation, and program attendance cannot be assigned honestly to one branch, so they are not folded into these city totals.
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-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 74% 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 74% 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.
Redmond 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.
The mayor is separately elected to lead administration.
The separately elected chief 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.
13% more from 2021 to 2026
27% more from 2018 to 2023
Nominal taxable-sales change; not adjusted for inflation.