January 14, 2011 · 10:00 am

Georgetown by the Numbers: Getting Here

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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 are the answers to those questions according to the American Community Survey:

When We Got Here:

According to the ACS, here’s how it breaks down as to when Georgetown residents arrived to the neighborhood (this is by household, not resident):

Moved in 2005 or later 38.36%
Moved in 2000 to 2004 28.32%
Moved in 1990 to 1999 18.21%
Moved in 1980 to 1989 10.73%
Moved in 1970 to 1979 1.57%
Moved in 1969 or earlier 2.81%

So most people got here since 2000.  Unsurprisingly, owner-occupied units tend to have been occupied longer than rental units:

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January 14, 2011 · 8:00 am

The Morning Metropolitan

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

  • GM had a prior commitment and couldn’t make it to the Hardy PTA meeting Wednesday night. Thankfully Shaun Courtney was on the job.
  • Some councilmembers are proposing to rename Pennsylvania Ave. as a protest for voting rights. GM sort of proposed that idea a long time ago…

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January 13, 2011 · 2:00 pm

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C&O Canal

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January 13, 2011 · 10:00 am

Special ANC Meeting Next Thursday to Discuss GU Ten Year Plan

Next Thursday (January 20th), the ANC (or rather the Committee of the Whole of the ANC) will meet to discuss Georgetown University’s Ten Year Plan. The meeting is going to be held at the Duke Ellington School at 6:30 pm.

At the meeting, the ANC will hear from Georgetown University and various community groups, such as CAG and the Burleith Citizens Association. It’s not clear yet to GM whether the public will be invited to chime in, but it seems unlikely that at least some public testimony won’t be allowed.

Any ANC resolution on the matter won’t be adopted until the normal January 31st ANC meeting. But GM will let you in on a little not-at-all-secret secret: the ANC is going to object to the campus plan. Continue reading →

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January 13, 2011 · 8:00 am

The Morning Metropolitan

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

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January 12, 2011 · 2:00 pm

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3400 block of M St.

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January 12, 2011 · 10:00 am

Real Estate Results for 2010

In 2010, the Georgetown real estate market appears to have started to pull itself off the bottom. While the numbers are still down, the market is definitely finally moving upwards.

There were 215 homes sold in Georgetown in 2010. The mean price was $1,263,921.21. The median (which isn’t thrown off as much by a few large sales) was $995,000. Here’s how that compares to 2009:

2009 2010 Change
Homes Sold 199 215 8.04%
Mean Price $    1,374,447.13 $      1,263,921.21 -8.04%
Median Price $    1,050,000.00 $         995,000.00 -5.24%

So, activity was up in 2010, but the prices weren’t. (It’s just a crazy coincidence that the number of homes sold was up exactly even with the percent drop in mean price).

The more pressing question is how did sales prices fare compared with list prices. On that account 2010 was slightly better than 2009. The mean drop in price from list to sale for 2010 was $123,068.86, the median drop was $65,000. That compares with 2009’s numbers of $134,760.13 and $65,000 respectively. So the mean drop is down slightly and the median drop is exactly the same.

Here’s how the years compare graphically. Below are the two years with dots showing the price and date of every house sold. Continue reading →

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January 12, 2011 · 8:00 am

The Morning Metropolitan

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

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January 11, 2011 · 2:00 pm

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1400 34th St.

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January 11, 2011 · 10:00 am

Georgetown By the Numbers: Transportation

A while ago, GM wrote about the car situation in Georgetown and argued that a small amount of residents were having an outsized impact on the supply of cars in the neighborhood. In writing this article, GM relied on the census data from 2000. Now that the American Community Survey five-year estimates are out, GM can circle back and see whether the stats he relied on are still holding up.

So without further ado, here’s how Georgetown gets around:

Car Ownership

When GM first looked into this, GM found a surprising amount of households in Georgetown without any cars. That number has increased.

Here are the numbers from 2000:

  • Total Households without any car: 20%
  • Total Households with just one car: 57%
  • Total Households with two or more cars: 23%

Here are what the ACS was the average from 2005-2009:

  • Total Households without any car: 22%
  • Total Households with just one car: 50%
  • Total Households with two or more cars: 28% Continue reading →

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