Every number here is generated from the live record, not typed in — so it cannot drift from what the site actually publishes. Each one comes with the sentence you can lift straight into a story, and the caveat that belongs with it. Licensed CC BY 4.0; attribution is all we ask.
“According to The Closure Record, 995 food and drink businesses have closed across Seattle and King County, each documented with a citable source.”
Not a complete census. A business missing from the record is not evidence it is open — only that no source we track has reported a closure we could link to.
“According to The Closure Record, 201 Seattle-area food businesses closed in 2025.”
Counts only closures whose date could be established. 234 published closures carry no date and are absent from every year figure by design — we would rather omit a date than invent one.
“The Closure Record has documented 150 Seattle-area food-business closures dated 2026 to date.”
A partial year, and the most recent weeks are the least complete — press coverage and county filings both lag the event.
“Capitol Hill has lost more food businesses than any other area in The Closure Record, with 145 documented closures.”
Across 79 labelled neighbourhoods and cities. Records we could not place carry no area label and are not ranked here. Denser commercial areas produce more closures in absolute terms; this is a count, not a rate.
“restaurant businesses account for 716 of the closures documented by The Closure Record.”
Category comes from the licence record's own classification, which is coarser than how a business would describe itself.
“Of the closures in The Closure Record, 283 are backed by a King County closure notice or a Google permanent-closure listing, and 714 by local press coverage naming the business.”
Where a record has both, it is counted under the county/Google figure — the stronger citation.
Bulk data: CSV · JSON. Methodology and charts are on Press & Data; what the record does and does not claim is on About.
Writing about a specific closure? Every record links to the source it was published from, so you can cite the original rather than us.