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Port Townsend
A snapshot profile, compiled from information provided by the 1990 Census and other sources as noted:

The numbers

Founded: 1860

Square miles: 7.1

Population: 8,400
(1999)

Median household income: $30,987
(1997)

Median house value: $82,400

Median apartment rent: $323

Housing units: 3,207

The people

Pie chart showing ethnic breakdown of population

Median age: 40.2

Enrolled in public school (K-12): 1,146

Completed four-year college or higher: 1,033

Below poverty level: 1.5 percent

Home ownership: 2037

Renters: 990

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Saturday, September 11, 1999

Here, nothing is quite what it seems

Making ends meet calls for creativity in colony of artists

Urban refugee helps keep community connected to the world

Some find reality of life here doesn't match the dream

Town has always drawn pilgrims of one sort or another

Jon Hahn: Transplanted New Jerseyan is bullish on Port Townsend

Things to do while you're here

Scenes of Port Townsend

Port Townsend by the numbers

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Camano Island

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