DC's Population is Growing

[Anonymous]

Despite all of the naysayers on this blog, DC continues to grow. People love to talk about the demise of DC and real estate, crime, people are hiding in their houses, not walking their dogs, TERRIFIED, blah, blah, blah.... but....

D.C.’s population is growing faster than the suburbs. A new study shows that the city’s population has grown 1.2% over the past three years to 678,972. Mayor Bowser’s five-year “comeback plan” hopes to have the city at 750,000 by 2028. [Axios]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Despite all of the naysayers on this blog, DC continues to grow. People love to talk about the demise of DC and real estate, crime, people are hiding in their houses, not walking their dogs, TERRIFIED, blah, blah, blah.... but....

D.C.’s population is growing faster than the suburbs. A new study shows that the city’s population has grown 1.2% over the past three years to 678,972. Mayor Bowser’s five-year “comeback plan” hopes to have the city at 750,000 by 2028. [Axios]

Good, just in time for us to sell our house and move to the burbs!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Despite all of the naysayers on this blog, DC continues to grow. People love to talk about the demise of DC and real estate, crime, people are hiding in their houses, not walking their dogs, TERRIFIED, blah, blah, blah.... but....

D.C.’s population is growing faster than the suburbs. A new study shows that the city’s population has grown 1.2% over the past three years to 678,972. Mayor Bowser’s five-year “comeback plan” hopes to have the city at 750,000 by 2028. [Axios]

Did you click on the link in the Axios story, the one from the DC Policy Center that said "this growth was primarily driven by international migration and, to a lesser extent, fewer deaths than in past years"? For the growth to be considered healthy, it needs to be from domestic migration. "As in previous years, the District experienced net domestic out-migration—that is, more people moved out of the District than moved in from other U.S. states and territories."

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/chart-of-the-week-dc-population-growth-outpaced-inner-counties/

[Anonymous]

Great for the economy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite all of the naysayers on this blog, DC continues to grow. People love to talk about the demise of DC and real estate, crime, people are hiding in their houses, not walking their dogs, TERRIFIED, blah, blah, blah.... but....

D.C.’s population is growing faster than the suburbs. A new study shows that the city’s population has grown 1.2% over the past three years to 678,972. Mayor Bowser’s five-year “comeback plan” hopes to have the city at 750,000 by 2028. [Axios]

Did you click on the link in the Axios story, the one from the DC Policy Center that said "this growth was primarily driven by international migration and, to a lesser extent, fewer deaths than in past years"? For the growth to be considered healthy, it needs to be from domestic migration. "As in previous years, the District experienced net domestic out-migration—that is, more people moved out of the District than moved in from other U.S. states and territories."

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/chart-of-the-week-dc-population-growth-outpaced-inner-counties/

I was wondering why they didn’t provide a link.

[Anonymous]

lol lol

[Anonymous]

Isn't that obvious that it's growing, as the population in the whole country grows? Where else would they go?

[Anonymous]

The growth could have come almost entirely from the busloads of migrants that were sent here. It's certainly not coming from people moving from other parts of the country to DC on purpose, because the city still is losing people in that direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The growth could have come almost entirely from the busloads of migrants that were sent here. It's certainly not coming from people moving from other parts of the country to DC on purpose, because the city still is losing people in that direction.

Ding ding ding.

Net tax base loss.

[Anonymous]

Would be interested in seeing how the demographics shift - i.e. young and single staying or DINKs staying in the city vs. older folks and families moving out. Telework is really changing things now that people, especially parents and those with establish/senior jobs, don't need to commute as much, if at all.

Real estate wise, seems like there is plentiful housing for single or DINKs while there is less housing for families, plus real estate for families is currently seeming stagnant vs. the burbs. In Hill East, rowhouses are sitting in the market and dropping prices, in the burbs and exurbs, SFHs are in heated bidding wars, at least in the NOVA burbs where we are looking for a SFH for under $950k. Crime also looks to be at play here in some areas of the city where people felt comfortable buying a few years ago, and now are preferring to avoid.

[Anonymous]

Time to end single family zoning and repeal the height act in DC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They growth could have come almost entirely from the busloads of migrants that were sent here. It's certainly not coming from people moving from other parts of the country to DC on purpose, because the city still is losing people in that direction.

You know absolutely nothing about how these statistics are compiled, do you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would be interested in seeing how the demographics shift - i.e. young and single staying or DINKs staying in the city vs. older folks and families moving out. Telework is really changing things now that people, especially parents and those with establish/senior jobs, don't need to commute as much, if at all.

Real estate wise, seems like there is plentiful housing for single or DINKs while there is less housing for families, plus real estate for families is currently seeming stagnant vs. the burbs. In Hill East, rowhouses are sitting in the market and dropping prices, in the burbs and exurbs, SFHs are in heated bidding wars, at least in the NOVA burbs where we are looking for a SFH for under $950k. Crime also looks to be at play here in some areas of the city where people felt comfortable buying a few years ago, and now are preferring to avoid.

"Hill East" is just rebranded Northeast DC. Which is why things are sitting on the market. NE is reverting to baseline, and no amount of white-and-blackified flipped houses with 5 round green shrubs in front can change the entrenched culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite all of the naysayers on this blog, DC continues to grow. People love to talk about the demise of DC and real estate, crime, people are hiding in their houses, not walking their dogs, TERRIFIED, blah, blah, blah.... but....

D.C.’s population is growing faster than the suburbs. A new study shows that the city’s population has grown 1.2% over the past three years to 678,972. Mayor Bowser’s five-year “comeback plan” hopes to have the city at 750,000 by 2028. [Axios]

Did you click on the link in the Axios story, the one from the DC Policy Center that said "this growth was primarily driven by international migration and, to a lesser extent, fewer deaths than in past years"? For the growth to be considered healthy, it needs to be from domestic migration. "As in previous years, the District experienced net domestic out-migration—that is, more people moved out of the District than moved in from other U.S. states and territories."

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/chart-of-the-week-dc-population-growth-outpaced-inner-counties/

I was wondering why they didn’t provide a link.

OP here. Was busy this morning.

[Anonymous]

Only 12,000 migrants were shipped here and I'm sure many have already left.