Table 32
OTHER 1997 PROPERTY VALUATION STATISTICS
New Property, Revaluation, and Senior Citizens Exempt Property
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Senior Citizens1
County Participants Exempted Value New Property2 Revaluation
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Adams 257 6,605,494 30,134,000 53,779,631
Asotin 646 6,412,620 18,492,911 84,951,072
Benton 1,249 38,234,950 196,961,550 60,448,560
Chelan 1,161 37,651,362 123,024,790 158,198,276
Clallam 1,569 53,725,124 71,349,577 77,018,466
Clark 4,160 152,812,320 1,145,569,928 952,262,020
Columbia 136 3,420,795 1,819,130 8,568,208
Cowlitz 1,993 58,086,425 312,655,560 9,358,311
Douglas 567 21,884,570 30,416,000 72,284,610
Ferry 221 5,520,029 5,569,300 3,200,745
Franklin 475 15,058,460 59,934,166 49,892,548
Garfield 67 1,446,532 1,168,995 6,556,597
Grant 1,779 39,942,528 172,510,220 94,369,288
Grays Harbor 2,078 60,747,346 65,999,136 185,156,788
Island 891 43,557,068 136,384,531 294,293,312
Jefferson 657 25,416,960 72,633,978 68,491,862
King 13,652 702,345,339 1,931,413,900 6,189,139,635
Kitsap 2,130 79,564,497 272,250,084 0
Kittitas 0 0 0 0
Klickitat 354 10,149,598 16,722,030 79,978,490
Lewis 1,673 48,022,830 114,356,486 99,010,250
Lincoln 258 5,453,510 8,499,420 21,952,520
Mason 1,138 36,540,804 60,573,398 137,909,188
Okanogan 1,103 33,389,649 37,699,898 63,094,302
Pacific 926 29,009,505 29,740,265 111,766,293
Pend Oreille 444 12,231,303 8,622,746 58,237,019
Pierce 8,536 305,829,002 1,015,234,189 985,978,708
San Juan 157 7,936,340 52,061,150 83,995,855
Skagit 1,816 68,756,130 157,284,388 194,524,732
Skamania 183 5,483,505 13,010,900 39,338,077
Snohomish 6,114 304,947,754 899,201,580 795,692,780
Spokane 7,164 226,749,182 552,104,920 365,252,745
Stevens 892 23,629,065 75,962,465 138,074,009
Thurston 2,641 100,874,155 248,984,582 415,432,985
Wahkiakum 124 3,488,170 3,867,500 13,288,940
Walla Walla 935 26,792,400 153,329,700 43,485,030
Whatcom 2,287 97,184,675 175,710,543 174,554,392
Whitman 436 10,686,765 24,366,020 237,644,146
Yakima 4,479 173,412,439 201,245,696 438,893,724
State Total 75,348 2,882,999,200 8,496,865,632 12,866,074,114
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1 Qualifying participants whose income is $15, 000 or less receive an exemption
of $34,000 or 50 percent of their residence value, whichever is greater.
Those with incomes between $15,001 and $18,000 receive an exemption of
$30,000 or 30% of their residence value, whichever is greater, but no more
than $50,000. The value of the residence is also frozen as of January 1, 1995,
or the initial year of application, whichever is later.
2 Includes new construction of real and personal property and other new property.