Seattle neighborhoods
Live incident feeds, scoped by area
The main live feed shows public-safety dispatch activity across the whole City of Seattle. These neighborhood pages take the same continuously updating data and narrow it to one part of the city at a time, so you can watch what is happening in a specific area without the rest of the map competing for attention. Each page pairs a live, auto-refreshing feed and map with a plain-English guide to that neighborhood — its geography, the kinds of dispatches it tends to generate, and how fire and police coverage works there.
As with everything on Seattle Breaking, these pages organize data that is already public. Every incident comes from the Seattle Fire Department or Seattle Police Department feeds published through the Seattle Open Data portal. A neighborhood with a quiet feed is not necessarily a quiet neighborhood — dispatch volume mostly tracks how many people are present in an area, a point our article on neighborhood dispatch patterns explains in full.
South Lake Union
The lakefront tech and biotech district between Denny Way and Lake Union — a feed dominated by a large weekday workforce, modern high-rises, and the Mercer Street traffic corridor.
View live feed →Fremont
The "Center of the Universe" on the north bank of the ship canal — a walkable arts-and-restaurant core, a busy drawbridge, and a growing cluster of technology offices.
View live feed →Belltown
The densest residential neighborhood in the city, at the north end of downtown — high-rise towers, a nightlife spine on First and Second Avenues, and one of the busiest feeds on the site.
View live feed →More neighborhoods to come
We are starting with three neighborhoods and will add more over time. If there is a part of Seattle you would like to see covered, let us know through the contact page. In the meantime, the citywide live feed covers every neighborhood at once, and the articles section explains how to read what you are looking at.