The Georgetown Metropolitan

This week GM has been going through the American Community Survey records that were released by the Census recently and seeing what it has to say about Georgetowners.

Today being the end of the week, GM will just hit some remaining odds and ends that didn’t fit in to the previous days.

First, a subject newly close to GM’s heart: fertility. According to the records, 84 Georgetown women gave birth over an average year since 2005. Of those 84 women, 23 had a bachelor’s degree and 61 had some sort of a graduate or professional degree.

Second, The median commute for Georgetowners is 20-24 minutes. There are a lucky 91 Georgetowners that have a commute of less than 5 minutes. On the other end, 32 unlucky Georgetowners have a commute over 90 minutes.

Finally, only 81% of Georgetowners speak only English at home. About 6% speak Spanish at home. About 10% speak some “other Indo-European” language at home. And about 2% speak an Asian language at home.

Photo by Alamosbasement.

This week GM is strolling through the recently released Census data finding interesting tidbits about Georgetowners. Today he takes us back to school.

Here’s what grade level Georgetown’s students are at:

• Nursery/Pre-school – 198
• Kindergarten – 26
• Grades 1-4 – 95
• Grades 5-8 – 191
• High School – 78
• College – 1713 (note that GM is not including Census Tract 2.01, which is the GU campus, so these numbers include just off campus students) Continue reading →

This week, GM is exploring the most recent Census data which reveals fascinating data about the who, what, where, and how about us.

Today, GM’s looking at the question of where we all came from.

First of all, a good number of Georgetowners came from here. Well, DC at least. Twelve percent of to be exact. Of all Georgetowners, 82% are U.S. born. So 69% were born outside of the District.

Of the Non-District born US-natives, the regional origin breakdown goes like this:

• Northeast – 41%
• Midwest – 21%
• South – 28%
• West – 10%

As a New Englander himself, GM’s glad to see that his fellow Northeasterners are still so dominant.

Of the 18% of Georgetowners who are foreign born 41% are naturalized American citizens. Continue reading →