It’s official. Bellevue has been named one of the geekiest cities in the country.
The Seattle-Bellevue area ranked No. 10 on a listing of “America’s Top 20 Geekiest Cities”.
The list was based on the National Science Foundation’s “Science and Engineering Indicators: 2010” report, which focused on the percentage of the population with careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
According to Forbes, 167,060 workers in the Seattle-Bellevue area — 11.8 percent of the workforce — have careers in the aforementioned fields.
The complete “geekiest cities” list includes:
1. San Jose, California
2. Boulder, Colorado
3. Framingham, Massachusetts
4. Huntsville, Alabama
5. Durham, North Carolina
6. Lowell, Massachusetts
7. Washington, D.C.
8. Ithaca, New York
9. Bethesda, Maryland
10. Seattle-Bellevue, Washington
11. Kennewick-Richland-Pasco, Washington
12. Austin-Round Rock, Texas
13. Ames, Iowa
14. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida
15. Boston, Massachusetts
16. Ann Arbor, Michigan
17. Bloomington-Normal, Illinois
18. Olympia, Washington
19. San Francisco, California
20. Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, Florida
That seems too low. I’d think we’d be in the Top 5
We’re number two! 🙂
San Francisco below Olympia? Yeah, right.