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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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][/quote]

When you have a big drop, as DC experienced from 2020 to 2022 (almost 20K in a jurisdiction with a population under 700K, or almost 3%), it's no surprise the modest rebound is also a larger percentage increase.

Aren't numbers fun? [/quote]

98% of statistics are made up.[/quote]

Nice.

In all seriousness, though, no one should put too much stock in these minor swings. The last census was a few years ago and the estimates in the interim years are based on surveys of a relatively small proportion of the population. Reports in outlets like Axios generally don’t mention the margins of error and deceive readers into thinking that we know exactly how many people lived in DC - and any other given city - last year when the reality is that the percentage changes from year to year could well be within the margin of error.[/quote]

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