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Lower Queen Anne
A snapshot profile, compiled from information provided by the 1990 Census and City of Seattle:

The numbers

Homesteaded: 1872

Square miles: .4

Population: 1,506

Median income: $36,071

Median house value: $162,500

Median apartment rent: $393

Parks: 3

Housing units: 1,161

The people

Pie chart showing ethnic breakdown of population

Median age: 37.2

Enrolled in public school (K-12): 29

Completed four-year college or higher: 35 percent

Below poverty level: 16 percent

Home ownership: 7.5 percent

Renters: 92.5 percent

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HEADLINES
Saturday, August 30, 1997

Gentrification is in full swing

Neighbors split on whether changes will be good or bad

Upscale eateries invading bastion of old-style diners

Affordable rents becoming endangered species

Nun's efforts saved Center's 'Holy Rhoddy'

Area also 'home' for street people

The Blob is now a pile of debris

Jon Hahn: Names of the gas may have changed, but the service is still the same

Things to do while you're here

Scenes of Lower Queen Anne

Lower Queen Anne historical album

Lower Queen Anne by the numbers

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