Washington is short 182,692 homes for its poorest renters, Seattle commuters lose 87 hours a year to congestion, 62% of its major roads are poor or mediocre, and a single county's data-center queue asks for six times its utility's entire load.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. Washington's profile is a study in scale: the nation's seventh-largest ELI housing deficit in absolute homes, one of its most congested metros, and a rural map — Cascades, Peninsula, Columbia Basin — where hospitals, maternity care and broadband all thin out over distance.
Three honesty notes are printed rather than smoothed over. Hospitals: only CHQPR's screen is printed — a Chartis-based cross-check for Washington could not be verified from a fetched source, and that limitation is stated in the category rather than filled with an unsourced second opinion. Food: the verified Map the Meal Gap figures are for Western Washington, where most Washingtonians live, and are labelled with that geography; no statewide rate was verified, so none is printed. Power: the queue figures are one generator-utility's (Chelan PUD's) own published queue and forecast, labelled to that geography; a verified statewide LBNL queue total was not fetched and is named as a gap in the category's fine print.
Traffic is printed by metro: Seattle from TTI's 2025 report (87 hours, TTI 1.40, 2024) — never blended into an invented statewide number. Dams carries the same discipline: the high-hazard count is ASCE's (278), a newer NID pull printing 320 is disclosed in the fine print, and the poor-condition count is the AP's analysis as reported in 2022, printed with its vintage because no fresher verified count exists. Water prints its two ASCE figures from their separate documents and vintages (2021 and 2019) rather than summing them into a single headline.