The City of Seattle has released a new demographic snapshot of Fremont, and the data describes a neighborhood with more renters, smaller households, and higher incomes than the city as a whole.
The Office of Planning and Community Development produced a Neighborhood Snapshot for each of Seattle’s 53 Community Reporting Areas, compiling commonly requested figures on population, housing, income, education, and more. Fremont’s profile, updated in June 2026, draws on Washington state population estimates and the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Housing is where Fremont most clearly stands apart.
- About 62 percent of Fremont households rent, compared with 56 percent citywide.
- Roughly 36 percent of Fremont renter households spend at least 30 percent of their income on housing, a common threshold for cost burden, compared with 42 percent across Seattle.
Fremont households are also smaller and far more likely to hold a single person.
- The average household has 1.76 people, below the citywide 2.00.
- About 47 percent of households are people living alone.
- Just 9 percent of residents are younger than 18, compared with 14 percent citywide.
- Working-age adults account for 83 percent of the neighborhood.
The snapshot describes an affluent, highly educated population.
- Per capita income in Fremont is $107,272, above Seattle’s $86,095.
- About 84 percent of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with 68 percent citywide.
- Fewer residents live below the poverty threshold, 7 percent in Fremont against 10 percent across the city.
The neighborhood is still growing.
- Fremont counted 21,467 residents in 2025, up from roughly 16,000 in 2010, and its recent growth has slightly outpaced the city’s.
- Residents are less racially diverse than Seattle overall, with people of color making up 30 percent of Fremont compared with 41 percent citywide.
Fremont households are also more likely to own a car than the city overall.
- About 12 percent go without a vehicle, compared with 19 percent citywide.
- Driving alone remains the most common way residents get to work, as it is across Seattle.
The city cautions that Community Reporting Areas are built from census tracts and may not match how neighbors picture Fremont’s borders. This applies to Fremont’s CRA, which the city labels as including south Wallingford and extends east well past Stone Way.
Survey estimates also carry margins of error, so the figures are best read as close approximations rather than exact counts.
The full four-page snapshot, including an accessible version, is posted on the Office of Planning and Community Development’s website. You can also dive deeper into the data on the Neighborhood Snapshots webmap.
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