Each morning, most of Lake Forest Park’s 5,240 residents head to work outside the city: only 88 people work for local companies, while 98.3% are employed in other communities. These statistics show how heavily the city depends on residents’ daily commutes to the business centers of the Seattle metropolitan area—and why it is considered one of the region’s most pronounced “bedroom communities.”
Based on: The Seattle area’s most extreme bedroom communities - The Seattle Times