Seattle, measured: what it means for a haul
84 square miles, about 781,000 residents, roughly 9,298 of them per square mile: Seattle is compact enough that a crew can run several jobs in a morning, and tight enough that each one needs a plan for the kerb.
38% of Seattle homes are detached houses and 51% sit in larger buildings — a genuinely mixed stock. Two jobs on the same street can be nothing alike: one a driveway load, the next a third-floor walk-up.
Renters hold 56% of occupied homes in Seattle and owners the rest, which splits the work in two: fast move-out hauls on one side, and the slower kind on the other — a garage that filled up over fifteen years. The median home here was built around 1974, when lifts were small and service entrances were an afterthought. Measuring the lift door before booking saves an argument later.
Measured from the city centre, our closest other coverage is Bellevue (9.2 miles), Tacoma (26 miles) and Portland (145 miles). Pros work across those lines all day, so the bids on a Seattle job often come from trucks that started the morning somewhere else entirely.
