Services for rural residents

This website provides a variety of county services important to rural residents and refers to rural towns and cities, community events and other goodies:

• Agriculture and forestry
• Community resources
• Environment
• Health
• Housing
• Parks
• Permits and building
• Roads and transit
• Safety
• Tax incentives
• Tourism

Whether it is maintaining roads and bridges, providing flood protection, preserving farms from development or working on regulations to allow home businesses to thrive, King County is working to protect rural quality of life and provide the services people need and want.

Community Service Areas program

Connects people in unincorporated areas of the county with government services, elected officials, and community funding opportunities. Learn more on the Local Services website or contact one of the program’s two community liaisons, Marissa Alegria or Bong Sto. Domingo.