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.
Being a small city, Bellevue does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Bellevue ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.
