This excellent site offers information on starting a small business and staying in business in the form of over seventy links. See particularly the State and Local Resources links. This webpage provides links to both web and print resources in the Foster Business Library on business plan preparation. This site, from the Washington State Employment Security Department offers a demographic profile of Washington state population, labor force, industries and personal income. This site, from the Washington State Employment Security Department offers a demographic profile of King County's population, labor force, industries and personal income.
Similar profiles are available for other counties in the state of Washington here .
The Puget Sound Regional Council is a regional data center that provides a wide variety of economic, demographic, geographic, and transportation data to its member cities, counties, businesses, and other interested parties. Data is available on a wide variety of demographic information, in spreadsheet formats, on race, income, housing, building permits, employment, transportation, etc. The Foster Business Library reference collection is located behind the Reference Desk in the center of the library's first floor. Seattle metro yellow pages. For King County, see page 496.