Southbound crossings into Blaine down, but by less than two percent

In December, 675,550 total passengers and pedestrians crossed southbound into Blaine at the Peace Arch and Pacific Highway border crossings, according to data from Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute. That’s a 1.9 percent drop from the same month the previous year, when 688,427 crossed the border into Blaine.

Throughout most of 2019, the number of southbound border crossings was slightly down from both 2017 and 2018. Annually, southbound border crossings into Blaine were down 4.7 percent in 2019 when compared to 2018.