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Black Diamond
A snapshot profile, compiled from information provided by the 1990 Census:

The numbers

Incorporated: 1959

Square miles: 4.5

Population: 2,010

Median household income: $28,155

Median house value: $158,000
sales price

Median apartment rent: $341

Parks: 1

Housing units: 748

Number of businesses: 53


The people

Pie chart showing ethnic breakdown of population

Median age: 32.5

Enrolled in public school (K-12): 283
(K-6 only; middle and high school students attend school in Enumclaw)

Completed four-year college or higher: 7.3 percent

Below poverty level: 8.6 percent

Home ownership: 83.5 percent

Renters: 16.5 percent

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HEADLINES
Saturday, December 14, 1996

Historic coal town is getting ready to grow up

A quiet town that likes it that way

Yielding to the inevitable

A mining town, then and now

Face of the city changes with the times

Jon Hahn: Bootlegging was hardly a secret in Black Diamond

Things to do while you're here

From the P-I archives

Scenes of Black Diamond

Black Diamond historical album

Black Diamond by the numbers


Nearby communities:

Auburn

Covington

Enumclaw

Kent

Renton

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