The City of Redmond has released its seventh annual Redmond Community Indicators report, which describes the city’s progress toward achieving its community vision as well as actions the city is taking to implement its Comprehensive Plan.

Among this year’s key findings is that the Redmond community continues to conserve natural resources. For example, water consumption fell to its lowest level in at least nine years, while the amount of waste produced per single-family residential customer per week in 2011 fell to 55 pounds from 66 pounds in 2006.

For the ninth consecutive year, Redmond reached a new high in the number of licensed businesses, at 5,533 — of those, about 26 percent have been in Redmond for at least seven years.

The city’s recreation programs continue to attract increased numbers of participants: There were more than 148,000 participants in 2011 — a new high.

Finally, the city has increased the reach of limited human services dollars. For the 2011-12 budget period, the Redmond is achieving a leverage ratio of more than 5-to-1 for each dollar it contributes toward human services.

More information related to Redmond’s natural environment, community character, economy and more can be found inside this year’s report.

The city publishes Redmond Community Indicators annually so the community and its elected officials can assess the effectiveness of city policies in helping to achieve the community’s long-term goals, as well as monitor Comprehensive Plan implementation.

Redmond Community Indicators 2012 is available online at www.redmond.gov/CommunityIndicators. For information, comments or questions, contact Jeff Churchill at (425) 556-2492 or jchurchill@redmond.gov.