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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you talking about this report?

https://www.brookings.edu/research/census-2020-data-release/

"Washington, DC’s high growth rate could be emblematic of other cities

One area—not a state—which did well growth-wise in the last decade is Washington, D.C. The District registered an 14.6% growth rate from 2010 to 2020, far surpassing its 5.2% growth from 2000 to 2010, which had followed population losses in each of the previous five decades (Download Table B). Like other major cities, Washington, D.C. benefitted from early-decade gains as young-adult millennials flocked to cities due to stagnating post-Great Recession housing and labor markets in suburbs and smaller-sized places.

While it is true that early-decade gains in the District and other cities shrank as suburban growth picked up, those early growth levels propped up total decade growth for most cities.   When the 2020 census results are released for other cities later this year, it is likely that many of them will show improved growth for 2010 to 2020 compared with the previous decade, following Washington, D.C.’s pattern."[/quote]

Uh, DC is shrinking. The only reason the growth rate was high between 2010 and 2020 is because growth was really high between 2010 and 2015 or so. That growth has been decelerating ever since and the most recent census estimate has us now losing residents. And the census numbers likely understate how much DC is shrinking because if you look at the number of people filing permanent change of address forms with the post office, it is off the charts. [/quote]

LOL not, it isn't shrinking. The census numbers are lower than expected because none of the college students were here and people of color were systematically excluded.[/quote]

Oh, ok, so all the census numbers are great, except for the 2020 ones when the census bureau suddenly became racist and forgot about college students? ok. there's also the small matter of the huge number of people who have filed permanent change of address forms with the post office in the past year. [/quote]

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