Bellevue ranked among the top 100 Best Communities for Youth, decided upon by America’s Promise Alliance. This group’s mission is to ensure that children receive fundamental resources. The communities, which are the best places for young people to live and grow, are awarded. All types of communities are taken into consideration for this award, ranging anywhere from rural to urban and large to small.

For the third year in a row Bellevue has earned this honor of being nominated to this list. Some of the programs that were taken into consideration for this award were the following: Bellevue’s 24 Hour Relay, Wrap-Around Services, TRACKS, and more.

Bellevue has notoriously been known for it’s safety and cultural diversity. With all the growth and the new “Downtown” population, will it continue to be a good and safe city to raise kids in?

11 Comments

  1. Notorious for it’s cultural diversity?! *HA!* Good one. I’ve heard that joke applied to Seattle before, now I guess it’s our turn.

  2. Yes, that is funny. Cultural diversity indeed. Everybody is lilly white except for the the 20% or so Asians.

    However, I do agree that it’s a great place to live, and actually getting better. Let’s hope the economic downturn doesn’t bite Bellevue on the a** as a bunch of luxury condos go unsold.

  3. You two posters must not have been to Crossroads lately, whites are the MINORITY there. Do you people even live in Bellevue? DT Bellevue could be called white, but not the rest of the town.

    Stevenson Elementary is 22% white!

    http://www.bsd405.org/Default.aspx?tabid=136

  4. I’d say that Bellevue is hugely successful in large part due to the large Asian community living here as well. It might be “diverse” but it is hardly only white people living here.

  5. Actually yes, I do live in Bellevue. Clyde Hill to be exact, and that is pretty much economic segregation defined. Your right about Crossroads though. Much more diversity in that area because its significantly cheaper to rent.

  6. Sorry to nitpick but Clyde Hill is not Bellevue, but it’s own town, and yes it is very white and crazy expensive.

  7. I don’t even want to think what kind of people our public schools are producing. Don’t talk about your perceptions of diversity based on how you “feel” to all the idiot commenters out there. As of the 2005 Census estimate, Bellevue has a non white population of 32%, which is higher than the city of Seattle. The Asian population is 25% up from 17% in Census 2000 which is one of the highest Asian poulations in any major city nationwide. And yes Asians are non white. Do some frickin research.

  8. Had to comment on the commentor with limited intellectual skills from Clyde Hill (not even part of the city of Bellevue). Asians have a higher per capita annual income than whites in Bellevue, actually substantially so. Higher rates of post graduate education, higher home ownership rates too. So they wouldn’t be confined to lower rent areas like Crossroads as you like to refer to as they, as a whole, are far more successful than your people.

  9. To the person disparaging me (Clyde Hill). A few points:

    You assume I am a white male. Wrong, I am an Asian American male.

    You state I have limited intellectual skills, insulting me and throwing your own apparent prejudices into this discussion. I don’t think you know me so just so you have a clue I have a BS and an MBA. In addition I was educated in the UK, a country with far higher educational standards than the US (IMHO).

    As for the distinction on City limits, while you are correct that Clyde Hill is not Bellevue, the fact is I can walk to downtown Bellevue in 10 minutes. You can’t do that from Crossroads. In fact most people don’t even know that Clyde Hill is its own city. I consider the whole area from Medina to Crossroads to be “Bellevue”.

    And finally I gave my opinion that Crossroads was more diverse and you assume I am saying it is some Asian ghetto. If you look at Crossroads and generalize (people do generalize you know) then clearly there are many Hispanic and Indian subcontinent peoples living in that area. Those people certainly do not have a “higher than whites” income in general. PS I used to live in that area.

    Thanks for insulting me. Have a nice day.

  10. Lets have some class. We all seem to care about Bellevue here, so lets be representative of it and not bring race or stereotypes into the conversation. Why do you think so many people have such a negative connotation about the people who live here? This is cliche, but we CAN all just get along.

  11. I’m a European American living in DT Bellevue, and I have even met an Australian American, a South America American, and a Near East American in Bellevue.

    Seems pretty diverse to me… and I really can’t stand any _____ American titles.