The week in review: September 28 – October 2
The week of September 28 – October 2 on seattletrendlines.com, in 11 posts.
Monday, September 28 — Seattle Fire 911 responses, August 2026. Seattle Fire dispatched 10,147 responses in August 2026, up 2.9% from a year earlier.
Monday, September 28 — Seattle Fire overdose responses, August 2026. Seattle Fire was dispatched to 98 overdose calls in August 2026, down 30.5% from a year earlier. Across the series the monthly count has run between 68 (August 2022) and 233 (October 2023).
Monday, September 28 — Building permits, month by month, August 2026. The Seattle metro permitted 990 housing units in August 2026. Against the trailing twelve months — 20,152 units — that single month is worth roughly 5% of a year.
Tuesday, September 29 — The three parks, August 2026. The three national parks within a few hours of Seattle drew 881,708 recreation visits in August 2026: 397,493 at Mount Rainier, 528,764 at Olympic and 4,991 at North Cascades. Three charts, not three lines.
Tuesday, September 29 — Seattle tech employment, August 2026. The Seattle metro’s information sector employed 132,100 people in August 2026, down 0.4% from a year earlier. The sector peaked at 151,200 in June 2022; it started this chart at 34,500 in January 1990.
Wednesday, September 30 — Checkouts per Seattleite, August 2026. Seattle Public Library lent 888,922 items in August 2026 — 1.08 per city resident, up 7.4% on the year as a rate.
Wednesday, September 30 — Seattle home prices, June 2026. The monthly home-price refresh, from the two measures that disagree usefully. Case-Shiller put the Seattle index at 393.2 in June 2026, down 1.9% on the year.
Thursday, October 1 — Checkouts per Seattleite, August 2026. Seattle Public Library lent 888,922 items in August 2026 — 1.08 per city resident, up 7.4% on the year as a rate.
Thursday, October 1 — Seattle-metro other services jobs, August 2026. Seattle-metro other services employers had 75,400 people on payroll in August 2026, up 0.8% from a year earlier. That is 3.5% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 3.5% a year before.
Friday, October 2 — Seattle home prices, July 2026. The monthly home-price refresh, from the two measures that disagree usefully. Case-Shiller put the Seattle index at 391.3 in July 2026, down 1.6% on the year.
Friday, October 2 — What Seattle reports to the city, September 2026. Seattle residents filed 31,453 service requests in September 2026 — potholes, graffiti, illegal dumping, abandoned vehicles, encampments — up 0.8% from a year earlier.
The week in review: every post from September 28 – October 2, summarised from its own listing blurb and linked. Assembled each Saturday from the posts that actually published that week.