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Renton’s No. 11 in state

July 31st, 2009 at Fri, 31st, 2009 at 5:08 pm by Dean Radford

If it’s feeling a bit crowded around town, well in a way it is, if you count some of those folks as having a real Renton address. Renton’s official population is now 83,650, mostly due to adding people from some recent annexations. But it’s a whopping 23,000-soul increase from the  April 1 number in 2007.  Yakima is just ahead of Renton at No. 10, with 84,850, followed up the list by Kent at 88,350. Bellevue is No. 5 at 120,600. That Eastside city hasn’t seen the same explosive growth as Renton, mostly because there’s little, if any land left for Bellevue to annex. In fact, since 200o, Bellevue has only grown by about 11,000 people. In that same time period Renton jumped from 14th to 11th on the state’s list of city populations. No surprise that Seattle is the biggest city, with 602,000 residents.

Dean Radford Hi. I am editor of the Renton Reporter. Prior to taking on that big responsibility, I was a reporter and held a number of editing positions at the King County Journal for many years. You can visit us at the Renton Reporter office, 200 Mill Ave. S., on the ground floor. dradford@rentonreporter.com

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  • dnoonie
    I'm curious as to the "day time" population figures.
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