State Labor economish Donna Thompson needed only a few words Tuesday to describe Snohomish County's economy in 2007. "We're smokin," she said of an unemployment report that showed employers in the county created 22,500 jobs last year.
Surprisingly, the amount was nearly equal to that of King County, the state's major job center, which added 23,400 jobs in 2007.
Thompson said the county's annual growth rate was 9.2 percent, more than four times the state average of 2 percent. The state created 77,700 jobs during the past 12 months. Snohomish County's contribution was nearly 29 percentof that total.
And our major contributor, Boeing. It's all due to the "787". Boeing and other aerospace firms in the county added 5,100 workers during 2007.
"We are attracting population and our labor force is growing. We are very fortunate to be in an area with a lot of high-paying manufacturing jobs" Thompson quoted.
Snohomish County's population count for April 20076 was 686,300. We are expected to reach around the 1,000,000 mark by 2020.
And you ask "why are people relocating here"? Here's your answer:
Snohomish County is located on Puget Sound, between Skagit County to the north and King County (and Seattle) to the south. Covering 2,090 square miles, it is the 13th largest county in total land area in Washington.
Snohomish County's varied topography ranges from saltwater beaches, rolling hills and rich river bottom farmlands in the west to dense forest and alpine wilderness in the mountainous east. Glacier Peak, at 10,541 feet, is the highest point in Snohomish County and one of the highest in Washington State. Sixty-eight percent of the county land area is forest land, 18% is rural, 9% is urban/city and 5% is agricultural.
Snohomish County enjoys a moderate year-round climate, with average temperatures ranging from about 75°F in July to about 33°F in January. The Olympic Mountains to the west, across Puget Sound, shelter the area from excessive precipitation coming off the Pacific Ocean.
However, that's our little secret - we aren't going to tell anyone about our little private corner of the world - now are we? That "proverb" came from years ago when Washington was just "a spec on the map" and the native Washingtonians didn't want anyone else moving into the State. The ploy was to tell all the people interested in moving here - "oh, it rains all the time here, it's miserable, you don't want to move here".
Well I relocated here in 1983 and that was the song. Then Californians started moving North because of our moderate year round climate, access to water and mountains, low population numbers and very affordable housing...........the rest is history.
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