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| OB Jacobi |
IRVINE, CA — RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the nation’s
leading source for comprehensive housing data, released its first-ever report
ranking all U.S. counties based on the prevalence of man-made environmental
hazards.
The report evaluates five man-made environmental hazards
tracked by RealtyTrac subsidiary Homefacts (www.homefacts.com)
in all 3,143 U.S. counties: percentage of bad air quality days, along with the
number of superfund sites, brownfield sites, polluters, and former drug labs
per square mile.
Among the 578 U.S. counties with a population of at least
100,000, those with the lowest prevalence of man-made environmental hazards
were Deschutes County, Ore. (Bend metro area), Saint Louis County, Minn.
(Duluth metro area), Saint Lawrence County, N.Y. (Ogdensburg-Massena, area just
south of Montreal, Canada), Skagit County, Wash. (Mount Vernon-Anacortes metro
area north of Seattle), and Snohomish County, Wash., (Seattle metro).
“Living in Washington offers a lot of benefits. We’re
fortunate to be surrounded by an abundance of natural beauty punctuated by low
pollution levels and clean air,” said OB Jacobi, president of Windermere
Real Estate, covering the Seattle, Wash. market.
“The areas within Washington with the least human-made
hazards had less than a tenth of a percent of bad air quality days compared to
a national average of 5.43 percent of days with bad air quality. Local housing
markets have benefited from this healthy landscape, reporting an average
10-year home price appreciation that is nearly 28 percent.”
For a complete copy
of the company’s news release, please contact:
Jennifer von Pohlmann
949.502.8300949.502.8300, ext. 139
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