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.
One of the benefits of Bellevue is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 0.00 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Bellevue is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Bellevue has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
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.
