About the King County Growth Report

We have transformed this year's Growth Report from a printed document to a web based report.  With this website, we are now able to provide more complete, accurate and useful information than ever before!  The tables, graphs and maps can now all be downloaded, printed and manipulated according to any user's needs.  Links are also provided on all of the data sources used in this report. 

Getting to know King County has never been so easy!   

Purpose

The Annual Growth Report is the county’s premier report on growth and development trends in King County, its cities, and planning areas. The report has two primary purposes: 1) to present a standard set of data on growth in King County to answer questions about where, when, and how much growth is occurring in King County and 2) to provide a foundation for evaluating King County land use and development policies.

History

More than twenty-five years of King County Growth Reports:   In 1983, the King County Department of Planning and Community Development published the first Growth Report as part of the preparation for what became the King County Comprehensive Plan of 1985. Good planning practice calls for monitoring of development activity and tracking the success of Plan goals. In 1983, the Department's Land Development Information System team prepared a baseline report of 1980 Census demographics, vacant land capacity data, and development data in unincorporated King County. The report was published in a loose-leaf binder so that elected officials and planners could add new information as it became available. The report was boldly titled Annual Growth Report with the hope that it would become an annual series.

It did in fact become an annual series, known as the AGR. The AGR series has become one of King County's most widely used documents, presenting frequently requested information in an easily used format. Each AGR contains growth trend data and maps of the past year development with illustrative graphs and text.