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Top 100
City Population
Camas 17,400
Mukilteo 20,300
Sammamish 40,600
Silverdale 17,100
Other cities
City Population
Alderwood Manor 16,400
Anacortes 16,300
Arlington 12,900
Artondale 9,100
Bainbridge Island 20,500
Battle Ground 12,900
Bellevue 111,600
Bellingham 73,400
Bonney Lake 11,300
Bothell 32,800
Bryn Mawr-Skyway 13,700
Burien 31,800
Camano 15,900
Cascade-Fairwood 37,200
Cottage Lake 25,100
Covington 15,100
Des Moines 29,500
East Hill-Meridian 30,100
East Renton Highlands 13,700
East Wenatchee 6,200
East Wenatchee Bench 14,500
Edgewood 9,800
Edmonds 40,300
Elk Plain 18,600
Enumclaw 11,100
Everett 97,600
Federal Way 85,200
Ferndale 9,800
Five Corners 15,100
Graham 10,800
Hazel Dell North 10,800
Inglewood-Finn Hill 22,800
Issaquah 12,700
Kenmore 20,200
Kennewick 61,300
Kent 83,700
Kingsgate 12,200
Kirkland 48,000
Lacey 36,300
Lake Forest Park 13,000
Lake Morton-Berrydale 9,500
Lake Stevens 6,700
Lakeland North 16,200
Lakeland South 12,400
Lea Hill 12,700
Lynden 10,600
Lynnwood 36,000
Maltby 8,500
Maple Valley 16,200
Martha Lake 16,100
Marysville 28,100
Mercer Island 21,800
Mill Creek 13,300
Mill Plain 12,900
Minnehaha 9,300
Monroe 15,800
Mount Vista 8,100
Mountlake Terrace 21,100
Newcastle 9,100
North Creek 29,600
North Marysville 23,200
Olympia 46,600
Orchards 20,400
Parkland 26,200
Picnic Point-North Lynnwood 27,000
Port Townsend 9,000
Poulsbo 7,200
Prairie Ridge 13,800
Puyallup 36,300
Redmond 46,200
Renton 52,800
Richland 44,000
Salmon Creek 19,200
SeaTac 25,300
Seattle 569,000
Seattle Hill-Silver Firs 38,900
Shoreline 51,900
Snohomish 8,600
South Hill 36,500
Spanaway 23,200
Spokane 202,600
Summit 8,600
Tacoma 204,200
Tumwater 13,600
Union Hill-Novelty Hill 14,800
University Place 31,400
Vancouver 164,700
Vashon 10,600
Veradale 9,900
Waller 9,700
Walnut Grove 8,900
Washougal 10,200
West Lake Stevens 20,400
West Richland 10,500
West Valley 10,800
Woodinville 9,600
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  Median household income
Hillsborough $263,456
Scarsdale $219,317
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in July (°F)
Rancho Mirage, CA 108.2°F
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Priciest homes
  Median price
Montecito $3,157,233
Hillsborough $2,606,764
Paradise Valley $2,075,930
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State College 76.5%
Durham 74.5%
Amherst Center 73.7%
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  Median age
Storrs 20.65
Durham 21.19
Oxford 21.56
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