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Where Bellevue's 832 three-bedroom apartments are
- 832
- three-bedroom-or-larger rental apartments in Bellevue
- 3.4%
- of apartments in buildings of 20+ units; King County 5.2%
- 2.2%
- the share in buildings from 2000 onwards
A household that needs three bedrooms and rents an apartment in Bellevue is choosing from 832 apartments in the whole city, against about 22,000 smaller ones. In buildings of 20 units or more, 3.4 percent of apartments have three bedrooms or more. Across King County the same figure is 5.2 percent.
Lake Hills and Crossroads hold a third of the 832
The 832 counts every apartment complex the county assessor records in Bellevue, 290 of them down to fourplexes. The percentages use the 187 buildings of 20 or more units, where the bedroom records are complete, and the King County figure is measured the same way.
Where they are
| Neighbourhood | 3+ bedrooms | Share | Apartments | Complexes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Hills | 156 | 10.0% | 1,556 | 46 |
| Crossroads | 117 | 2.7% | 4,290 | 57 |
| Cougar Mountain / Lakemont | 101 | 25.2% | 400 | 1 |
| Eastgate | 95 | 11.4% | 834 | 8 |
| Bridle Trails | 73 | 3.6% | 2,015 | 16 |
| Wilburton | 63 | 9.0% | 703 | 12 |
| Factoria | 59 | 11.8% | 499 | 14 |
| West Bellevue | 54 | 5.5% | 989 | 38 |
| Downtown | 33 | 0.4% | 8,046 | 52 |
| Newport | 32 | 20.1% | 159 | 3 |
| BelRed | 23 | 0.9% | 2,720 | 13 |
| Woodridge | 15 | 2.3% | 661 | 13 |
| Northwest Bellevue | 11 | 1.8% | 622 | 15 |
| Northeast Bellevue | 0 | 0.0% | 153 | 2 |
| Somerset | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| West Lake Sammamish | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
Lake Hills and Crossroads together hold 273 of the 832, about a third. Both have substantial apartment stock. Downtown has more apartments than either, but just 33 have three bedrooms or more: 0.4 percent.
Cougar Mountain / Lakemont has 101 three-bedrooms, a quarter of its apartment stock. Three neighbourhoods record none; two of those have no apartment complexes at all. The map shows counts, so a dark area can reflect more apartments, a larger three-bedroom share, or both.
Newer buildings have a smaller three-bedroom share
Buildings from 1960–1999 hold most of the three-bedrooms
| Year built | 3+ bedrooms | Share | Apartments | Complexes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before 1960 | 5 | 1.7% | 302 | 19 |
| 1960–1999 | 604 | 4.8% | 12,663 | 201 |
| 2000 onwards | 223 | 2.2% | 10,682 | 70 |
| All years | 832 | 3.6% | 23,647 | 290 |
Buildings from the 1960s through the 1990s hold 604 of the 832. Three-bedroom apartments make up 4.8 percent of their units. Buildings from 2000 onwards hold 10,682 apartments and 223 three-bedrooms, 2.2 percent of those with a recorded bedroom count. Three small complexes, with 28 to 90 apartments each, supply 125 of those 223.
Before 2000 the share was 4.7 percent. Across every complex standing today it is 3.6 percent, and 3.4 percent in buildings of 20 units or more, the count this page leads with. This compares the buildings standing today by year built; it does not count homes lost to demolition.
How this was checked
Checks against this finding
- Do the headline and percentage use the same buildings? The headline counts every assessor-recorded Bellevue complex, down to fourplexes. The city-and-county percentage comparison uses buildings of 20 units or more in both places.
- Do neighborhood totals measure the share of larger apartments? No. They count three-bedroom-or-larger units. The neighborhood table gives the share separately.
What this does not measure
- Apartments only. Condominiums are recorded separately and rented houses are not recorded at all. The claim is about purpose-built rental apartments, a narrower thing than the rental market.
- The assessor's record is not a listing. Unit mix describes the building as built. It says nothing about vacancy or rent, and rent is not public data in Washington.
- One point in time. The assessor extracts were posted at the end of September 2026. The count describes that snapshot, not current availability.
Sources (2)
Sources
- King County Assessor apartment complex, unit breakdown and parcel extracts (posted 26 September and 1 October 2026, fetched 2 October). King County comparison from the same assessor extracts.
- City of Bellevue neighborhood areas, King County GIS lakes and OpenStreetMap freeways for the neighborhood map.
Photo credits
- Apartments above the shops at Lake Hills Village, July 2018: Mark Yasuda, 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Updates and corrections.
Updated 31 Oct 2026. A neighbourhood heat map and table now locate all 832 three-bedroom apartments across the city's 16 areas. Buildings from 1960–1999 hold 604; those from 2000 onwards hold 223 among 10,682 apartments, a smaller share. The citywide headline and corrected school-zone finding are unchanged.
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