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Map of the Week: King County’s Localscape

Stephen Fesler - August 10, 2015

Have you ever wanted to know the racial diversity of your neighborhood, how your local schools rank, or where development permits have been recently issued? Localscape offers these features and more in one interactive map. The King County Assessor’s Office released the interactive mapping tool this week, which is powered by a collection of data from the US Census Bureau, King County departments, Great!Schools, and local jurisdictions throughout the county.

Users can toggle a wide variety of data layers and widgets to see information on local districts, property appraisal, census tract demographics, school attendance zones, and even generalized land uses. Summaries of the data appear on the left of the screen when queried while map-level data can be populated and manipulated on the right using the layers feature or data tabs from above. Try it out and learn more about your community!

Local school information
Local school information

Local Census information
Local Census information

Local land use information
Local land use information

Local permit information
Local permit information

Property-level information
Property-level information

Recent sales information
Recent sales information