SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AREA

The 'Seattle metropolitan area' in Washington, USA includes the city of Seattle, King County, Snohomish County, and Pierce County within the Puget Sound area. The U.S. Census Bureau defines the metropolitan area as the ''Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA'' Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of 3,203,314, making it the 15^th largest United States metropolitan area.
As defined by the United States Census Bureau, the Seattle metropolitan area is made up of the following counties:

★ Seattle–Bellevue–Everett metropolitan division

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★ King County: Seattle and its immediate vicinity

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★ Snohomish County: north of Seattle

★ Tacoma metropolitan division

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★ Pierce County: south of Seattle
Based on commuting patterns, the adjacent metropolitan areas of Olympia, Bremerton, and Mount Vernon, along with a few smaller satellite urban areas, are grouped together in a wider labor market region known as the ''Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia'' Combined Statistical Area. The population of this wider region is 3,919,624. The additional metropolitan and micropolitan areas included are:

★ Bremerton–Silverdale metropolitan area

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★ Kitsap County: west of Seattle, separated from the city by Puget Sound; connected to Seattle by ferry and to Tacoma by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

★ Olympia metropolitan area

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★ Thurston County: southwest of Seattle, at the south end of Puget Sound

★ Mount Vernon–Anacortes metropolitan area

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★ Skagit County

★ Oak Harbor micropolitan area

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★ Island County: northwest of Everett, encompassing Whidbey and Camano Islands in Puget Sound

★ Shelton micropolitan area

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★ Mason County: west of Tacoma and northwest of Olympia

Contents

Principal cities

Major Highways

Trivia

Principal cities

★ Anacortes

★ Bellevue

★ Bothell

★ Bremerton

★ Everett

★ Kent

★ Mount Vernon

★ Olympia

★ Renton

★ Seattle

★ Silverdale

★ Tacoma

Major Highways

★ I-5

★ I-405

★ I-90

★ I-705

★ SR 18/I-605 (Future)

★ US 2

★ US 99

★ US 101

Trivia

★ The Seattle metropolitan area has the second highest number of coffee shops per capita in the United States (2.5 per 10,000), only after Anchorage, Alaska (3 per 10,000)[1].