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Percent
City 3rd Quarter, 1996 3rd Quarter, 1997 Change
Aberdeen $ 74,698 $ 75,765 1.4%
Auburn 240,044 267,489 11.4
Bellevue 809,202 937,257 15.8
Bellingham 296,144 320,288 8.2
Bremerton 130,351 128,022 -1.8
Camas 34,660 34,252 -1.2
Centralia 56,092 55,819 -0.5
Chehalis 61,390 70,049 14.1
Colville 30,020 35,952 19.8
Des Moines 27,447 31,492 14.7
Edmonds 82,973 111,488 34.4
Ellensburg 56,321 67,580 20.0
Everett 402,063 491,163 22.2
Federal Way 231,787 242,079 4.4
Fife 81,389 95,593 17.5
Issaquah 147,121 163,678 11.3
Kelso 43,904 46,530 6.0
Kennewick 203,778 222,132 9.0
Kent 486,511 502,902 3.4
Kirkland 280,559 317,040 13.0
Lacey 95,292 91,894 -3.6
Longview 132,488 137,688 3.9
Lynnwood 328,734 354,146 7.7
Marysville 72,012 78,280 8.7
Mercer Island 36,318 45,462 25.2
Moses Lake 86,575 94,007 8.6
Mount Vernon 90,986 99,551 9.4
Mountlake Terrace 30,167 29,060 -3.7
Oak Harbor 47,354 51,860 9.5
Olympia 257,507 278,060 8.0
Omak 24,121 24,611 2.0
Pasco 122,393 129,103 5.5
Port Angeles 68,094 71,147 4.5
Port Townsend 30,534 31,434 2.9
Pullman 61,774 64,511 4.4
Puyallup 233,383 253,861 8.8
Redmond 332,902 372,396 11.9
Renton 290,675 347,084 19.4
Richland 92,749 89,166 -3.9
SeaTac 185,933 192,873 3.7
Seattle 2,489,718 2,726,113 9.5
Shelton 32,026 35,509 10.9
Spokane 700,230 725,819 3.7
Sunnyside 44,342 45,691 3.0
Tacoma 726,112 745,901 2.7
Tukwila 382,788 389,231 1.7
Vancouver 329,920 422,274 28.0
Walla Walla 82,795 86,486 4.5
Wenatchee 126,913 143,168 12.8
Yakima 283,050 310,628 9.7
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