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| Japanese tour guide translates for PCC-Redmond grocery store manager, Celeste |
EDITORIAL (updated): One of my goals for this blog is to acknowledge and value Redmond international residents and the wealth of culture, business and grace they bring to our fair city and neighborhoods. Since Redmond's founding a hundred years ago, the city has moved far beyond it's native American - pioneer horse culture. Today, Microsoft and many other Greater Redmond tech companies expand our cultural and international diversity exponentially by hiring globally.
The 2010 census figures for Redmond, WA puts a handle on it:
- Redmond residents: 61% white not Hispanic, 1.7% black, 25% Asian, 8% Hispanic or Latino, 4% mixed-race, and 0.6% American or Alaskan Indian/islander.
- Other tidbits: Redmond's Asian population is 4 times larger than the average WA population. Of the Asian race, almost 12% are East Indian; percent of Arab nations are unknown.
- Foreign born persons living in Redmond are 29% of households.
- Language other than English spoken at home in 33% of households. (age 5+)
- Redmond business: Asian-owned firms (2007) 13%. Hispanic owned firms (2007) 3%
- Median household income (2006-2010): $88,194.
- Population: 54,155 (non-working hours), 20% increase last 10 years.
