Lake Stevens: Washington's Fastest-Growing Small City

Annexation, urban flight combine to give LS top growth rate, steeply increasing property values

Lake Stevens tops Sea-Tac, Shoreline and Auburn in growth rates among Washington’s small cities, per OFM data released this week. Graphic by KTH/J425

Lake Stevens is an increasingly appealing place to call home, and the city sports the ballooning growth rates and property values to prove it.

The sleepy lakeside city that fewer than 8,000 called home as r…