During the dog days of pandemic quarantining, we wondered whether Seattle’s suburban exodus was real or imagined. The 2020 U.S. Census didn’t offer any more clarity. It only considered our population as of April 1, 2020, or just a few virtual happy hours into shutdowns. But Thursday’s reveal of the 2021 population estimate is our best guess yet for how remote work affected our local headcount.
The answer: not as dramatically as we might have thought. On July 1, 2021, about 733,919 called Seattle home, compared to an estimated 738,172 a year earlier, per the Bureau. The 4,253-person drop shaved less than one percent from our
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