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Real-time fire, medical, traffic and police dispatch activity in the Chinatown–International District, the neighborhood of Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon at the south end of downtown, where light rail, Amtrak, Sounder and the First Hill Streetcar meet. The feed below is filtered to the district from the citywide dispatch stream and refreshes every thirty seconds.
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The Chinatown–International District, usually shortened to the CID, is three neighborhoods in one. Chinatown centers on South King Street and Hing Hay Park; Japantown, or Nihonmachi, is centered on Sixth Avenue South and South Main Street; and Little Saigon's commercial heart is at 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street. Together they run roughly from Fourth Avenue South on the west to Rainier Avenue South on the east, and from Yesler Way south to the Dearborn and Charles street area.
Interstate 5 was built through the middle of the district in the 1960s, destroying many Chinese and Japanese buildings and businesses, and it still separates Little Saigon from the older blocks to the west. The Seattle Chinatown Historic District, roughly south of Jackson Street and west of the freeway, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Landmarks include the Wing Luke Museum, which moved into the restored East Kong Yick Building in 2008; the Uwajimaya store, which began in Japantown; and the 45-foot Historic Chinatown Gate at the west end of South King Street, unveiled in February 2008.
The CID is one of the region's busiest transit nodes. International District/Chinatown station in the downtown transit tunnel serves Link's 1 Line and 2 Line; King Street Station on Fourth Avenue South serves Amtrak and Sounder; and the First Hill Streetcar stops on South Jackson Street at Fifth, Seventh and 12th Avenues. The east side of Lumen Field faces the district.
SPD dispatched 9,177 events to the CID over the year, about 25 a day, which ranks it eighth of the city's 58 SPD neighborhood areas and puts it ahead of much larger residential neighborhoods. Seattle Fire recorded 3,982 incidents within the area shown on this page's map, about 11 a day. The volume comes from people passing through as much as from people who live here: the transit hub, restaurants, grocery stores and community agencies draw riders, shoppers and clients from across the region. For the general pattern, see our article on why some neighborhoods generate more dispatch traffic.
Police events build through the morning to a mid-afternoon peak of 522 in the 3 p.m. hour, and about 21.5 percent fall between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., a bit above the downtown core. Fire and EMS incidents peak around 5 p.m. and drop off sharply overnight: the busiest hour saw 3.7 times as many incidents as the quietest, a steeper curve than the city's 2.6.
Two things stand out in the police data. First, the CID has the highest share of Priority 1 events of any neighborhood we profile: 18.4 percent of dispatches, against 13.8 percent citywide. Second, traffic calls are unusually rare at 7.7 percent, less than half the city's 16.4 percent, even with the freeway and the stadium approaches nearby. Calls involving people in public space take up more of the mix: crisis complaints 7.6 percent (city 5.0), assist-other-agency requests 5.9 percent (city 3.5), prowler calls 5.9 percent (city 3.9), narcotics 4.0 percent (city 1.4) and intoxication 3.8 percent (city 0.9). The fire data shows a similar pattern. Illegal burns, usually unpermitted outdoor fires, are 5.7 percent of incidents here against 2.6 percent citywide, rubbish fires 3.6 percent against 1.5, and overdose responses 3.6 percent against 1.1. Medic Responses, the advanced-life-support calls, are a smaller share than citywide (7.6 vs 10.5 percent).
Expect the feed to cluster around the transit stations and along South Jackson and South King streets, with welfare checks, disturbances and medical calls through the day. Outdoor fires are a bigger part of the feed here than in most neighborhoods. Citywide, illegal-burn calls peak in winter and brush fires in summer, and the CID logged 44 brush-fire incidents over the year, 1.1 percent of its fire calls against 0.5 percent citywide. With traffic calls so rare, a collision pin here stands out more than it would in most of the city.
Seattle Fire Station 10, at 400 S. Washington St. on the district's northwest edge, is the nearest station. It houses Engine 10, Ladder 1, Aid 5, Aid 10 and the Hazardous Materials Team. Farther east, Station 6 in the Central District, at 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., houses Engine 6 and Ladder 3, and the nearest paramedics are Medic 1 and Medic 10 at Harborview Medical Center, just up the hill on First Hill. Our guide to how Seattle Fire coverage works explains why the unit that arrives is often not the closest station's.
The CID is in SPD's West Precinct, and every one of its 9,177 events is assigned to the precinct's K (King) sector, which also covers Pioneer Square and part of downtown. Officers reached 62.1 percent of Priority 1 events with a recorded time within 7 minutes, slightly better than the West Precinct's 59.3 percent and well above the 50.5 percent citywide figure; 77.5 percent were reached within 10 minutes. Our response-time analysis explains how those numbers are measured.
The map box runs from about Fourth Avenue South east past 12th Avenue South, covering Chinatown, Japantown and the western part of Little Saigon, so the easternmost blocks along Rainier Avenue are outside it. Fire records appear within minutes, but SPD data is refreshed about once a day, so police pins show earlier events. An empty feed just means nothing has been dispatched inside the box in the current window.
About the data. Police figures come from SPD Call Data (data.seattle.gov, dataset 33kz-ixgy) for October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026, counted as distinct dispatched (community-generated) CAD events, not per-unit rows, using SPD's own neighborhood label "CHINATOWN/INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT"; officer on-view events are excluded. Response times run from the call being queued to the first officer on scene and cover Priority 1 events with a recorded time. Fire figures come from Seattle Fire Real-Time 911 (dataset kzjm-xkqj) for the same months, counted inside this page's map box, which approximates the neighborhood and does not match SPD's boundaries. Counts describe how calls were categorized at dispatch, not what responders found.