Snoqualmie Valley Community Needs Assessment A Supportive Community for All
Agenda ▪ Our Team ▪ Project Overview Project Goals ❑ Outreach ❑ ▪ Snoqualmie Valley Community Characteristics ▪ Key Findings Priority Needs ❑ Barriers ❑ Potential Solutions ❑ ▪ Q&A 2
Our Team Allegra Calder Jescelle Major Kristin Maidt Radhika Nair Ben Silver Natasha Dunlap Project Manager Engagement Lead Lead Analyst Engagement Engagement Project Director ▪ Strategy, planning, and policy development ▪ Financial and economic analysis ▪ Facilitation, design, and communications Founded in 1988, our passion is working in the public interest, helping public and nonprofit agencies address complex challenges and position themselves for success. 3
Project Overview
Community Needs Assessment Goals Develop a shared understanding of the 1 Valley’s demographics Understand and learn about unique 2 challenges in the Valley Hear from a diverse set of stakeholders 3 Create an inventory of current service 4 providers and system of supports available in the Valley and surrounding area 5
We are here Schedule 6
Snoqualmie Valley Study Area ▪ How we defined Snoqualmie Valley for this Study ▪ Goals Geographic specificity ❑ Differentiation by area ❑ 7
Asset Inventory ▪ Resource showing current service provision in and around the Valley Online Map ❑ Excel ❑ database - maintained by SCFA 8
Outreach Overview
Outreach and Engagement Goals ▪ Learn about unique needs of Snoqualmie Valley residents Supplement secondary data ❑ ▪ Be inclusive and hear from diverse valley residents Upper/Lower Valley ❑ Youth, families, and seniors ❑ Varied socio-economic backgrounds ❑ 10
Diverse Stakeholder Strategy ▪ Integrate online and in-person engagement ▪ Design activities to address key barriers (time, access, language, trust, not connected to community) Quick, short fun activities ❑ In-person pop-ups or short add-on events ❑ Leverage local champions (schools, senior centers, foodbank, libraries, ❑ faith community, special events, created tools to scale engagement) Support Spanish ❑ ▪ Offer many ways to engage – web, phone, in-person, paper ▪ Monitor and adjust – track demographics and target gaps ▪ Illustrated how input affected the needs assessment. 11
Diverse Stakeholder Strategy STAKEHOLDERS AND TOOL/EVENT AUDIENCES All Valley Residents • Survey North Bend Library Pop up • Carnation Library Pop up • Families with Children • Si View Community Center Family Fun Night • Hopelink Food Bank Pop up and Lunch Residents with Lower Incomes Hopelink Food Bank Pop up and Lunch • Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank Pop up • Youth • Trail Youth Coffee House Pop up & Youth Board Meeting Older Adults • Sno-Valley Senior Center Community Brunch • Sno-Ridge Senior Apartments Apartment Meeting Homeless Residents Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services – Winter Homeless Shelter Pop up • Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank Pop up • Latino Community • St. Anthony’s Spanish Mass Pop up • Hopelink Food Bank Pop up and Lunch Providers/Navigators Snoqualmie Valley Healthy Communities Coalition Meeting • 12
Survey ▪ Available online and paper surveys distributed and collected at events ▪ Open from January – March ▪ Heard from 352 respondents ▪ Focus on: Snoqualmie Valley Assets ❑ Needed Supports ❑ Availability of Supports ❑ Barriers to Service ❑ Solutions ❑ Groups in Need ❑ 13
In Person Outreach ▪ In-person events Reached over 225 Snoqualmie Valley ❑ residents and families Focus on: ❑ Challenges affecting quality of life ▪ Barriers to getting help ▪ ▪ Potential solutions ▪ Healthy Communities Coalition Meeting 20 participants ❑ Focus on: ❑ Community needs ▪ Barriers to service ▪ ▪ Gaps Potential solutions. ▪ 14
Community Characteristics
Community Characteristics ▪ One goal of the Needs Assessment was to create a baseline understanding of and for the community ▪ Snoqualmie Valley is a unique part of King County with unique needs 16
Community Characteristics Population ▪ Since 2010, the 70,000 Average Annual Growth (2010 - 2018) Valley has added 61,325 ◼ Carnation, 2.4% 60,000 7,000 residents 54,369 ◼ Duvall, 1.7% 50,000 ▪ Growing at a ◼ North Bend, 2.2% ◼ Snoqualmie, 2.9% similar rate to 40,000 King County 30,000 overall (1.5%) ◼ Unincorp. Sno-Valley SD, 0.6% ▪ Snoqualmie, 20,000 North Bend, and 10,000 ◼ Unincorp. Riverview SD, 1.0% Carnation have ◼ Fall City, 0.7% grown the most 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 17
Community Characteristics Age Distribution ▪ The Valley has a 2017 Median similar age 0-4 5-19 20-49 50-64 65+ Age distribution to 7% 21% 38% 23% 11% SCFA Study Area 40.6 7% 21% 38% 23% 11% King County Carnation 36.8 8% 21% 36% 26% 9% overall but has a Duvall 36.4 6% 29% 44% 16% 5% slightly higher Fall City 46.5 4% 20% 29% 25% 21% proportion of: North Bend 38.8 7% 22% 40% 20% 12% Youth under the Snoqualmie 34.7 13% 23% 45% 14% 6% ❑ age of 19 Unincorp. Riverview SD 42.8 5% 13% 33% 30% 18% Unincorp. Sno-Valley SD 39.4 Older adults over 4% 20% 35% 29% 11% ❑ the age of 50 King County 37.2 6% 17% 46% 19% 12% 18
Community Characteristics Family Composition ▪ The Valley has a higher proportion Married-couple Family Single Female Householder w/Children Total Single Male Householder w/Children Senior 65+ Living Alone Households of married-couple Other Non-Family families (70%) than 70% 7% 2% 4% 16% SCFA Study Area 21,283 70% 7% 2%4% 16% King County Carnation 644 57% 14% 1% 9% 20% overall (48%). Duvall 2,593 69% 10% 3% 18% ▪ There are at least Fall City 769 65% 5% 6% 7% 16% 1,000 North Bend 2,387 63% 9% 5% 5% 18% householders Snoqualmie 4,179 79% 7% 2% 11% over the age of 65 Unincorp. Riverview SD 4,631 67% 4% 2% 9% 19% living alone (4.7% Unincorp. Sno-Valley SD 6,849 70% 6% 3% 4% 17% of all households) King County 851,077 48% 9% 4% 9% 31% 19
Community Characteristics Race and Ethnicity ▪ Although, the Valley is less racially and White Alone Hispanic/Latino (any race) Total Asian Black/African American American Indian/Alaska Native Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander ethnically diverse Population Other Mutiple than King County 84% 6% 5% 3% SCFA Study Area 58,287 84% 6% 5% 3% overall, 16% of the population are Carnation 1,902 77% 15% 3% 3% Hispanic or People Duvall 7,494 85% 7% 3% 3% of Color. Fall City 1,976 84% 12% 3% 6% are Hispanic of North Bend 6,475 81% 13% 4% ❑ any race Snoqualmie 12,438 78% 3% 12% 5% 5% are Asian Unincorp. Riverview SD 10,905 91% 3% 3% ❑ 3% report being Unincorp. Sno-Valley SD 19,073 86% 4% 5% 3% ❑ multiple races King County 2,118,119 61% 9% 16% 6% 5% 58,287 20
Community Characteristics Median Household Income ▪ Incomes are 2017 Median Household Income $160,000 outpacing inflation in ◼ Duvall $151,612 some Snoqualmie $140,000 ◼ Snoqualmie $136,508 Valley cities (Duvall, Fall City, and North $120,000 ◼ Sno-Valley SD $117,201 Bend) ◼ Riverview SD $110,194 ◼ North Bend $100,417 $100,000 ◼ Fall City $98,950 $80,000 ◼ Carnation $79,038 $60,000 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 21
Community Characteristics Poverty Total % Population Living in Population* Poverty ▪ Poverty varies greatly by SCFA Study Area 58,810 5% geography Carnation 1,808 8% Duvall 7,650 5% ▪ 5% of all residents Fall City 1,896 5% in Snoqualmie North Bend 6,645 13% Valley are living in Snoqualmie 12,869 1% poverty Unincorp. Riverview SD 11,474 5% Unincorp. Sno-Valley SD 18,364 4% ▪ Poverty threshold King County 2,089,582 10% for family of four with two children is $24,858 22
Community Characteristics – Q&A ▪ Does anything surprise you about the community characteristics? ? ▪ Did you learn anything new? 23
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Key Findings
Key Findings ▪ Priority needs and barriers to service compiled from: Secondary data analysis ❑ Diverse stakeholder outreach ❑ Survey responses ❑ Service provider meeting ❑ ▪ There may be other needs in the Valley that we didn’t hear about or uncover in our data analysis 26
Priority Needs – Q&A ▪ What do you think are the key needs and gaps in the Valley? ? 27
Priority Needs – What we heard Snoqualmie Valley Needs Regional Needs Older Adult Support Veteran Support Housing Youth Support Transportation Community Connections Mental Health Support 28
Regional Needs - Housing ▪ Snoqualmie Valley is more rural than other parts of King County, with more single- family, owner-occupied housing ▪ Over a quarter of households in the Valley are cost-burdened or severely cost burdened ▪ Seniors, recent immigrants, and residents with modest incomes indicated a need for more diverse and affordable housing including smaller units and rentals Housing Cost Burden All Households 70% 20% 10% Renters 56% 25% 18% Owners 75% 18% 7% Not Cost Burdened Cost-Burdened (30-50%) Severely Cost-Burdened (>50%) Not Calculated 29
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