What? DC only has 689K people according to census
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Anonymous
| We often see 750K or 720K used for DC population on these boards. Heck a general 700K is used occasionally when talking about COVID drugs etc. (Density arguers are always quoting 750K) But the first glance census data has come out at 689K? What the heck happened there and where do thing like the Mayors COMPLAN get their "data" from which is apparently simply speculation? |
Anonymous
| I always think of DC as having 600k people. Not sure where 720-750 is coming from. |
Anonymous
| The extreme rioting of last summer without law enforcement probably scared people away. |
Anonymous
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Only Arizona's population came in lower in terms of percentage of what had been estimated:
https://twitter.com/mikemaciag/status/1386796165472137219?s=19 DC leaders had been using the far-too-high population estimates as a reason for pushing the comp plan changes. This has to give them pause. It's not 2012 anymore: people are leaving DC, not rushing to move in. |
Anonymous
| this census just isn't accurate and was crazy politicized in order to get crappy results |
Anonymous
More like the census undercounted Latino's sytemically and, all of the students were at their homes because of COVID, so that is 10+ thousand right there. |
Anonymous
So far all of the analysis has said that despite concerns there does not seem to have been an under represented population. Apparently the full census study comes out in the fall. Until then by contrasting states with large Hispanic and minority populations (NM for example) they can see that the process worked and there was not a systemic issue. We will see I suppose this fall. |
Anonymous
| We were living temporarily out of state because of COVID and forgot to do it, so we can’t be the only homeowners/residents who didn’t fill it out. |
Anonymous
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Urban areas are notoriously undercounted in the census, as a result of transient populations (college/grad students), vulnerable and marginalized ppls (unhoused families, housing insecure folks, undocumented people, etc).
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Anonymous
| Most of the college students were out of town. This is not a big deal and doesnt have anything to do with whatever political issues one might think. |
Anonymous
| DC had a choice over the past decade. Promote policies to make the city more family friendly or encourage policies that favor family-less young people and DINKs. It deliberately chose the latter because those people pay taxes but don’t use many services. The next decade DC is going to pay for this short-sighted direction to turn the city into a playground for young people instead of making it more family friendly. |
Anonymous
| Illegal immigrants are where your missing numbers are. Duh. |
Anonymous
Orphans? That's so sad! |
Anonymous
How does living out of state impact somebody from filling out an online census questionnaire? |
Anonymous
They didn't get constant reminders in their mailbox and people knocking on their door on account of them being, you know, out of state. |