Bellevue is located three miles east of Seattle, between
Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish, and about ten miles west of the foothills of
the Cascade Mountains.
The city’s resident population of 117,000 and daily workforce of
about 121,000 make it Washington’s fifth-largest city. Bellevue is a
prosperous, increasingly diverse city that has evolved from a “bedroom
community” into the economic and cultural hub of the Seattle-area’s Eastside.
The city has developed its downtown core into a major business and retail centre
while maintaining the safe, comfortable family neighbourhoods for which it has
long been popular.