It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bellevue has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bellevue has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bellevue than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bellevue may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Bellevue spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 0.00 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Bellevue does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Bellevue ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.
Bellevue is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bellevue home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bellevue residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Bellevue include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Bellevue is West Germanic languages. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Russian.
