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The City of Edmonds Courtesy of Wikipedia

By Blair Leckie

Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Greater Seattle

November 04, 2006 04:43 AM

Edmonds, Washington

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edmonds is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. Edmonds has a view of the Puget Sound and both the Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range.

Edmonds waterfront

As of the 2000 census, the city population was 39,515 (40,014 estimated in July 2002).

Based on per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Edmonds ranks 37th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.

[edit]History

Edmonds was officially incorporated on August 14, 1890.

[edit]Notable locals

William J. Nosworthy, CEO, Founder, Nosworthy Telecommunications Distributors, Inc. (NTD) Brought the Answering Machine (Record-A-Call) to Washington State in 1964.

[edit]Geography

Edmonds resides at 47°48′28″N, 122°21′36″W (47.807868, -122.360133)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 47.8 km² (18.4mi²). 23.1 km² (8.9 mi²) of it is land and 24.7 km² (9.5 mi²) of it (51.68%) is water.

[edit]Demographics

As of the census GR2 of 2000, there were 39,515 people, 16,904 households, and 10,818 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,714.3/km² (4,437.6/mi²). There were 17,508 housing units at an average density of 759.5/km² (1,966.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 87.73% White, 1.34% African American, 0.80% Native American, 5.56% Asian, 0.26% Pacific Islander, 1.26% from other races, and 3.05% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.32% of the population.

There were 16,904 households out of which 26.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.0% were married couples living together, 8.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.0% were non-families. 29.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.85.

In the city the population was spread out with 20.6% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 89.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $53,522, and the median income for a family was $66,126. Males had a median income of $46,226 versus $33,863 for females. The per capita income for the city was $30,076. About 2.6% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.9% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.

[edit]Schools

High Schools: Edmonds-Woodway High School (EWHS)

Middle Schools: College Place Middle (CPM)

Elementary Schools: Chase Lake Elementary, College Place Elementary, Edmonds Elementary, Seaview Elementary, Sherwood Elementary, Westgate Elementary, and Woodway Elementary

K-8 Schools: Maplewood and Madrona

[edit]Trivia

Edmonds is the birthplace of Ken Jennings, popular Jeopardy! contestant; and the hometown of Rick Steves, the well-known travel writer;Rosalyn Sumners, the Olympic figure skating medalist; actor Steven Bailey, and actress Anna Faris.

The game of quoits is very popular there. The people sometimes break benches in half to make quoit boxes.