Category Archives: Demographics
Georgetown’s Phantom Density
There are many benefits to living in a dense city. The most obvious is that with so many people living in close proximity, their joint buying power and habits can support shops and restaurants within walking distance. It’s why a … Continue reading
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Georgetown’s Population Didn’t Boom That Much Afterall
Last Friday, GM posted a particularly breathless report on the huge jump in the population count for Georgetown in last year’s census. The overall increase was 1,791, a 21.01% increase. Moreover, He found that the biggest gains in population were … Continue reading
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Georgetown’s Population Booms
Update: GM’s enthusiasm got a little ahead of him. The boom is probably more a result of reporting changes. Read more here. Yesterday, the U.S. Census released the results for the 2010 Census for D.C. While many immediately focused on … Continue reading
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The Baby Boom in Georgetown
Photo by Sean Dreilinger. Yesterday GM wrote about the increase in Georgetown children attending Hyde-Addison Elementary School and chalked up the growth to a Georgetown baby boom. It’s a topic GM has briefly mentioned a few times, but a reader … Continue reading
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Georgetown by the Numbers: Getting Here
Photo by theMuuj. GM has written a bit on who lives in Georgetown and how we get around, but today he’s going to ask: how’d we get here. Well, maybe not how specifically, more like when and from where. Here … Continue reading
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Counting Georgetown
Last December, an event happened that GM has been waiting for for years: the release of the five year estimates from American Community Survey. Sounds terribly dry, yes, but what it means is that data on a host of questions … Continue reading
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Georgetown Census Participation Good, Not Great
GM was tipped by DCist today to check out the Census participation for Georgetown. You can look up on the Census website and find out how good each census tract is about answering those ten questions. Georgetown’s is already better … Continue reading
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Could Georgetown Join Ward Three?
It’s census time again. As GM prepared his ten answers, he started to wonder, could this census lead to Georgetown shifting over to Ward Three? Most people are familiar with the Congressional redistricting that occurs as a result of the decennial census, … Continue reading
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Kids and Georgetown
It is often said that there are are few children in Georgetown these days. It is easy to see where people might get that idea: most homes large enough to house a family comfortably (even by townhouse standards) are too … Continue reading
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