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Living in Queen Anne, WA

 Queen Anne hill is home to a mix of business hubs and residential real estate. While Lower Queen Anne is home to the attraction-centric Seattle Center, which hosts one of Seattle's most iconic landmarks the Space Needle, with its observation deck overlooking the city, Upper Queen Anne is known for 19th-century homes, sweeping city views from Kerry Park, and Queen Anne Ave’s stylish shops and cafes.

Location: Queen Anne is bordered by Belltown to the south, Lake Union to the east, the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the north and Interbay to the west.  

Quick Queen Anne Neighborhood Takeaways:

  • Queen Anne is ranked #18 in Washington due to its abundance of local amenities, proximity to downtown Seattle, stable housing market, and high income per capita.

  • The cost of living in Queen Anne is 54% higher than the Seattle average.

Historical fact: The hill became a popular spot for the city's early economic and cultural elite to build their mansions, and the name derives from the architectural style typical of many of the early homes.

Queen Anne, WA Real Estate

Queen Anne is home to 29 official Seattle landmarks, including 12 historic houses. A group of residences on 14th Avenue West, built between 1890 and 1910, include one of the few remaining Queen Anne style houses on the hill. The North Queen Anne Drive Bridge, built in 1936 across Wolf Creek, is a parabolic steel arch bridge, declared a historic landmark for its unique engineering style.[16] One of the oldest wooden-hulled tugboats still afloat, the Arthur Foss, is moored near the base of Queen Anne. Queen Anne Boulevard, which circles the crown of the hill, and some of the original retaining walls complete with decorative brickwork, balustrades, and street lights, are also designated landmarks.

  • Median Listing Price $740,000

  • Price Per Sq Ft $496

  • Population of 25,386

  • Median Age: 35.5

  • Renter / homeowner 63% / 37%

Who Lives In Queen Anne?

Including the sub-neighborhoods of North Queen Anne, West Queen Anne, East Queen Anne and Lower Queen Anne (or Uptown), Queen Anne has approximately 19,000 households and a total population of about 36,000. (Source) 

  • The population density in Queen Anne is 6% higher than Seattle.

Queen Anne Schools

Within the Seattle Public Schools district, Queen Anne is home to five public schools.

  • Frantz Coe Elementary

  • John Hay Elementary (which has had three different buildings, all on Queen Anne Hill)

  • Queen Anne Elementary

  • McClure Middle School

  • The Center School

Two former schools, Queen Anne High School and West Queen Anne School, are on the National Register of Historic Places. Both are now condominium apartment buildings.

Queen Anne has four private schools.

  • Queen Anne Community School

  • St. Anne School

  • Seattle Country Day School

  • Seattle Waldorf High School

Seattle Pacific University, a private university founded in 1891 by the Free Methodist Church of North America, has 4000 undergraduate and graduate students on a 43 acres (17 hectares) campus on the north slope of Queen Anne.