The Seattle Times "FYI Guy" does a neat service--he'll investigate to find the answer to a question sent in by a reader.
On Dec. 16, he reported the results of the question, "How many empty bedrooms are there in King County homes?"
He counted 3 + bedroom homes that a single or married couple owns and lives in, with no kids or extended family living with them. He used census data to come up with the figure of 144,000 homes in King County that have empty bedrooms.
Starting with the third bedroom of these 144,000 homes, that was 200,000 bedrooms with no one sleeping in them.
Yes, empty nesters, mostly, peaking now with the Baby Boom generation. But it makes you think, doesn't it? Makes me think about sprawl, for one thing, as young families move outwards to new construction, while a single older person in a five bedroom home in the city stays put due to a tax break.
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