ZIP 98109: $18.4 million across 87,695 FEC lines

87,695 lines on an $18.4 million ZIP

Divide $18,428,991 by 87,695 and the typical itemized line is about $210. That is the high-volume end of this set: many receipts, a low mean. South Lake Union’s mix of apartments, offices, and campus-adjacent mail does not by itself explain the two numbers. The packet publishes those two numbers. It does not publish a unique-donor count.

Eighty-seven thousand six hundred ninety-five contributions is among the longer lists in this remaining-ZIP wave. Volume is not a unique-person count. Payroll-style itemizations, repeat givers, and redesignations can inflate the line list. Quote 87,695 as a contribution-line total, not as a population of Seattle donors.

LobbyVault does not attach a tech-industry story to $18,428,991. Employer fields are not in this aggregate. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 98109.

Office ZIPs and household ZIPs share one field

98109 covers South Lake Union, a slice of Queen Anne, and a dense office grid. A filer who lists a workplace, a filer who lists a condo, and a committee that uses a 98109 suite all land in the same five-digit bucket. $18,428,991 is that bucket. It is not a resident-only book.

Named receipts on the ZIP 98109 FEC page are the way to see which committees appear. This guide will not invent a split between households and entities. The 87,695-line count follows the same rule.

Outside the $18,428,991 figure

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside. Washington state campaigns sit outside. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP sit outside even if they mention a Seattle race. Cite $18,428,991 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 98109.

A long line list can hide a few large restated transfers. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

South Lake Union’s 98109 key absorbs workplace mail at a scale household ZIPs rarely match. 87,695 lines against $18,428,991 is the evidence of that volume, not evidence of 87,695 unique Seattle residents. Payroll-style itemizations and repeat gifts add rows. This packet has no unique-donor count. Quote the line count as a line count.

Queen Anne and downtown Seattle keys are not 98109. Adding them manufactures a city figure. Keep $18,428,991 as this ZIP only. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. The donor directory is a name-level view across ZIPs; it is not a second copy of the 87,695-line total. FEC.gov controls if a later extract disagrees.

98109 versus 98110 and other Seattle keys

Bainbridge’s 98110 is a different mail key with a different line count. Do not add the two ZIPs and call the sum a Puget Sound FEC total unless you list every code you included. $18,428,991 is 98109 only.

The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for that comparison. FEC.gov does not rank which Seattle neighborhood is more engaged. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Live tables for 98109

The ZIP 98109 FEC page holds $18,428,991 and 87,695 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.

Filtering the donor directory to 98109 should reconcile to the ZIP hub. When a name search and 87,695 disagree, the ZIP roll-up is the geographic total. No income map is attached to the $210 mean.

South Lake Union volume without a tech census

98109 posts $18,428,991 across 87,695 contributions, about $210 per line. That is one of the longer lists in this remaining-ZIP wave. Office towers, apartments, and campus-adjacent mail can all produce small itemized rows. The packet does not split those uses. It does not publish a unique-donor count. Quote 87,695 as a line count.

Do not add 98109 to 98110 and call the sum a Puget Sound FEC total unless you list every code. $18,428,991 is 98109 only. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory. Nearby Seattle keys often show different means. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Washington state campaigns never enter $18,428,991. Unitemized federal gifts never enter. A long list can hide a few large restated transfers. Recheck the ZIP 98109 FEC page after quarterly filings. The donor directory lists names across ZIPs; filtering it to 98109 should reconcile to the hub, not to a homemade $210 average.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 98109?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 98109 total $18,428,991 across 87,695 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of South Lake Union residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $210 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why does ZIP 98109 have so many contribution lines?

LobbyVault counts 87,695 itemized contributions for ZIP 98109 against $18,428,991. Dense office and apartment mail can produce many small itemized rows. Repeat gifts and redesignations add lines without adding unique people. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 87,695 should not be quoted as a population.

Does ZIP 98109 include only Seattle residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Workplace addresses and committees that file 98109 can be part of $18,428,991 when that is what was entered. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 98109 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $18,428,991 and 87,695 lines for ZIP 98109. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Washington state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.