Seattle Center by the numbers

• Operating budget in 1981: $7,582,691

• Number of full-time employees: about 300

• 1962 World's Fair attendance: 9.6 million

• Number of annual visitors to Seattle Center now: 10 million

• Number of institutions that call the Center home: 21 (from Seattle Repertory Theatre to Experience Music Project to KCTS, a public-television station)

• Number of annual performances on site: more than 5,400

• Number of cultural festivals yearly: 13

• Percentage of King County respondents in a survey who visited the Center at least six times in 2000: 60

• Percentage who had visited at least once in past 12 months: 72

• Percentage of visitors who go for these reasons:
Concert or musical: 28
"Just walk around the grounds": 28
Sporting event: 27
Theater or ballet: 27
Educational attraction: 26
Festival: 24
Children's or family event: 20
Rides: 8

Source: Seattle Center; King County Residential Survey from December 2000, conducted by Elway Research (margin of error: plus or minus 5 percentage points)