Photo by aa1970.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Fight brewing over possible expansion to Washington Harbour complex.
- Dine like a president in Georgetown.
The Morning Metropolitan
Filed under The Morning Metropolitan
Counting Georgetown: Families
GM’s been going through the recent release of the American Community Survey and seeing what it has to say about Georgetowners. The other day, GM mentioned that the baby boom is continuing in Georgetown. Today he’ll explore that closer, and take a look at what the average family in Georgetown looks like.
According to the ACS, there are 4,187 households in Georgetown (that excludes the GU campus). There are 1,787 households with families in them. A family is defined to be a household with two or more people in it who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. So it could be a married couple, a family of five, or two siblings. The average family household size in Georgetown is 2.63. Continue reading
Filed under Demographics
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Ehpien.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- New general manager at Four Seasons. Same ridiculous prices.
- Here’s how those Google Streetview-inside-the-stores works.
Filed under The Morning Metropolitan
Counting Georgetown: Getting to Work
Today, GM digs back into the recently released American Community Survey results issued by the Census Bureau. Specifically, GM is going to explore one of his favorite topics: transportation.
Last year, GM reported that the numbers showed a dramatic reduction of Georgetowners driving to work and a smaller, but still significant, jump in transit use. He is somewhat sorry to say that some of those trends reversed themselves this year.
Here are the year to year comparisons:
|
2010 |
2011 |
|
| Drove Total |
31.43% |
38.49% |
| Drove Alone |
28.12% |
33.21% |
| Carpool |
3.31% |
5.27% |
| Transit |
24.46% |
23.05% |
| Walked |
25.63% |
23.78% |
| Other |
5.97% |
7.61% |
| At Home |
9.20% |
7.08% |
The driving totals went almost back to where they were in 2009 and the transit cohort shaved off a few percentages. “Other” is up pretty significantly, which probably reflects the growing numbers of bike commuters.
Before you jump to a conclusion that something happened in 2011 to change people’s behaviors, remember that each of these results reflects a running five year average. So when the 2011 numbers say 23.05% of Georgetowners took transit, it’s really saying that from 2007 to 2011, an average of 23.05% of Georgetowners took transit. So while shifting up a year would affect that somewhat, it’s not a “snapshot”.
The long term trends, though, are still towards transit, walking and “other” (which, on top of biking, also includes motorcycling, Segwaying, and whatever else doesn’t involve a car or public transit.) Continue reading
Filed under Demographics
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jim Malone.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The GU students must be the broiest bros that ever did bro.
- Speaking of GU students, despite going off to form their own new conference, they are still a bit bitter with their soon to be ex-Big East mates.
Filed under The Morning Metropolitan
Coming and Going By Bike
Photo by Adminspotter.
This has been a great week for Capital Bikeshare! It started off with Slate naming it the best bikeshare program in the country. And now the inestimable M.V. Jantzen has created a program that allows you to click on any bikeshare station and find out where people ride to from that station and where people road from to arrival there.
The data for the Georgetown stations (taken from the 3rd quarter of 2012) is predictable, but interesting. Check them out:
Wisconsin and Canal:
- Top Paired Station: Dupont Circle – 789 trips – 434 to here and 355 back
K and 30th:
- Top Paired Station: Also Dupont Circle – 522 trips – 370 to here and 152 back Continue reading
Filed under Bikes
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jim Malone.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- A man threatened to jump from the Key Bridge last night, but thankfully he was talked down. (Before you complain about traffic, maybe stop and remember that a life was nearly lost. Maybe traffic is not really that important in the whole scope of things?)
- “Organic Intelligentsia coffee“?
Filed under The Morning Metropolitan
You must be logged in to post a comment.