The demographic of Washington, D.C. , also known as the District of Columbia, reflects an ethnically diverse cosmopolitan capital. By 2017, the District has a population of 693,972 people with a population density of 11,367 people per square mile. The city has seen a net population gain of over 90,000 people since the 2010 Census and more than 120,000 people since the 2000 Census. Washington, D.C., is unique among major US cities because its stance is not organic, but rather established as a result of political compromise. The district has relatively few inhabitants during most of its early history until the Civil War. The presence of the US federal government in Washington has been instrumental in future growth and development. Its role as the capital makes people forget that Washington has a native population.
In 2011 the black population of Washington slipped below 50 percent for the first time in more than 50 years. The city is a mostly black city from the late 1950s to 2011. Washington has had a significant African-American population since the creation of the city; some neighborhoods D.C. well noted for their contribution to black history and culture. Like many other frontier and northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, Washington received many black migrants from the South in the Great Migration, who moved to the North for better education and employment, and to avoid legal segregation and hanging. Government growth associated with World War II provides economic opportunities for African-Americans as well.
In the postwar era, the percentage of African-Americans in the city continues to increase as the total population declines as a result of suburbanisation supported by the construction of federal highways, and white flights. Black population includes a strong middle and upper class.
Since the 2000 US Census, the city has added over 120,000 inhabitants and reversed the number of significant population losses seen in previous decades. The district has seen an increase in the proportion of its white, Asian, and Hispanic population, and the decline of the city's black population. The last few have moved to the suburbs; others move to new opportunities in the South in the Great New Migration.
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History
Washington, D.C., was established to become the new capital of the United States and is largely a planned city. However, there were already a number of settlements within the federal territory when it was created in 1790. The most important of these settlements were the towns of Georgetown, founded in 1751, and Alexandria, Virginia (later incorporated in the District), established in 1749. Together, both cities have the vast majority of the early inhabitants of the District. The population of each place was calculated separately from the inhabitants of Washington City until Alexandria was returned to Virginia in 1846, and until the District of Columbia was formed into a municipality in 1871. In 1790, Alexandria had a population of 2,748. By 1800, the City of Washington had a population of 3,210, Georgetown had 2,993, and Alexandria had 4,971.
Population District remains small compared to other major US cities. In 1860, just before the Civil War, the District had about 75,000 inhabitants, much smaller than the large historic port cities like New York at 800,000 or Philadelphia at over 500,000. It should be noted that Washington had a large African-American population even before the Civil War, and most were free-colored people, not slaves. Due to the expulsion of slave slaves in Upper South after the American Revolutionary War, the free black population in those countries rose sharply from about 1% before the war to 10% in 1810. Because many states do not permit blacks to be free to live. after gaining freedom, they often move to the District; in 1860, about 80% of the African-American population in the city was black-skinned.
After the Civil War, the population of the District jumped 75% to over 130,000. Washington's population continued to grow throughout the late nineteenth century when the Irish-American, German-American and Jewish-American immigrant communities formed in the area around the city center. In 1900, the growth of the city has spread to more residential parts outside the old Florida Avenue line following the development of city tram lines along major arteries such as Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Connecticut Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, Georgia Avenue, 14th Street and 16th Street. In 1930, development within the district boundaries was largely completed, with the exception of some remote areas of the Far East and Southeast and city populations totaling just under 500,000. In response to the Great Depression of the 1930s, New Deal President Franklin D. Roosevelt's law extended bureaucracy in Washington. World War II further increased government activity and defense contracts, increasing the number of federal employees in the capital. People came from all over the country to work in Washington's wartime. In 1950, the population of the District reached a peak of 802,178 inhabitants.
Shortly thereafter, in a recurring pattern across the country, the city began to lose the population attracted to new housing in the suburbs, with the journey eased by an expanded network of roadways outside the city. After riots and social unrest in the 1960s, coupled with rising crime, in 1980, Washington lost a quarter of its population. After the achievement of civil rights, more urban middle-class blacks also moved to the suburbs. The urban population continued to decline until the late 1990s. Gentrification efforts began to change the depressed demographic of the environment. More recently, the growth trend since the 2000 US Census gave the first increase in the district population in 50 years.
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Statistics
Population
In 2017, US Census Bureau data estimated the district population at 693,972 residents, continuing the trend of urban population growth since the 2000 Census, which recorded 572,059 residents. During the working week, the number of commuters from the suburbs to the city swelled District residents with an estimated 71.8%, for the daytime population of over one million people. The Washington Metropolitan Area, which covers the surrounding area in Maryland and Virginia, is the eighth largest in the United States, with over five million inhabitants. When combined with Baltimore and its environs, the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area has a population of over eight million inhabitants, the fourth largest in the country.
There are 277,378 households in the District in 2014. About 45% of them are householders living alone. There are also 117,864 family households; 20% of the house has children under the age of 18 years. From families with children, 51% are those led by housewives. The average household size is 2.2 and the average family size is 3.2.
Ethnic Composition
Population distribution was 49% black, 43.6% white, the other 5.0% (including Native Americans, Alaska, Hawaii, and Pacific Islands), and 3.1% of Asia. Of these, there are 8.3% Hispanics (of any race) and 1.6% mixed.
In 2007, an estimated 74,000 foreign immigrants lived in Washington, D.C. Major sources of immigration include El Salvador, Vietnam, and Ethiopia, and the concentration of Salvadoreans has settled in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
DC has a declining African-American population, as many middle-class and professional African Americans move to the suburbs, mostly in Maryland (for example, the African-American majority has grown in Prince George's County) and Northern Virginia, exacerbated by the rising costs live in the area.
African Americans have been the largest ethnic group in the city since the 1950s. But in recent years the number of European Americans in the city has increased, and some have occupied enriched areas in traditionally black environments. Since 2000 there has been a 7.3% decline in the African-American population and a 17.8% increase in the Caucasian population. Many African Americans have moved from city to suburb. In addition, some African Americans migrate to other parts of the South in the Great New Migration, due to family ties, increased opportunities and lower living costs.
The Metro DC area is the second most popular destination for immigrants born in Africa, after New York City. More than 161,000 African-born people live in DC and surrounding areas. This includes Nigeria with 19,600 residents and Ghana with 18,400. So far, the largest concentration of Ethiopia in the United States can be found in D.C. and local metro areas. Some conservative estimates mention the number of about 75,000 inhabitants, while other estimates are as high as 250,000 Ethiopians in DC and the surrounding neighborhood.
The Hispanic population in DC is 71,000 (10.6% of the DC population). The Hispanic population who traveled to DC from Maryland and Virginia was about 814,000; 512,000 live in Virginia (9% of the population of Virginia) and 230,000 live in Maryland (9.5 of the population of Maryland) The largest Hispanic group is Salvador, accounting for an estimated 18,505 from 45,901 Hispanics in Washington. In 1976 Walter Washington, District Mayor of Columbia, created the Latino District Office of Columbia Affairs.
While the DC White population represents 43.6% of the total, part of this group includes the European population born. There are 18,359 European citizens born abroad. The largest groups include 2,407 from Britain, 2,271 from Germany, 2,103 from France and 899 from Italy. There are also many diaspora groups in DC including from the Irish community, the Italian community, to name a few. Other large Caucasian communities in the District include the Armenian-Americans, with some 8,000 inhabitants estimated in 2003.
Historically, the European immigrant environment in DC has incorporated the Swampoodle neighborhood in Ireland, now known as NOMA (North of Massachusetts Ave), and Foggy Bottom during the late 19th century and the Italianal Judiciary Square neighborhood, which has both since ceased to mostly inhabited by residents of this ethnic group. German-Jewish immigrants settled in the neighborhoods of Cleveland Park and Forest Hills and in the eastern neighborhood of Rock Creek Park such as Petworth, Brightwood, and Crestwood in the early 20th century.
The Asian-American population makes up 3% of the total DC population. This included 16,788 foreigners born. The largest groups include 5,476 residents from China, 1,843 from the Philippines and 1,355 from Korea.
Birth data
Note: The births in the table do not increase, as Hispanics are well-counted by their ethnicity and by their race, giving a higher overall score.
- Since 2016, birth data of Hispanic White origin are not collected, but belong to one
group; people from Hispanics may come from any race.
Literacy rate
A 2007 report found that about one-third of Washington's population is illiterate functionally, compared to the national level of about one in five. This is partly due to immigrants who are not proficient in English. A 2005 study showed that 85.16% of Washington's population, D.C. aged five and older only speak English at home and 8.78% speak Spanish. French is the third most used language of 1.35%.
In contrast to the high level of functional illiteracy, almost 46% of the population of D.C. 25 and older have at least a four-year undergraduate degree, and 25% have a bachelor's or professional degree. In 2006, Washington residents had an average family income of $ 58,526. This has not changed much over the last five years.
LGBT population
The Gallup Daily daily poll found that 10% of the population in the District of Columbia is likely to be identified as LGBT, the highest in the country.
A Williams Institute 2005 on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy study estimates 8.1% of LGB people make up the adult population in Washington, D.C., the highest in the United States.
The 2000 census revealed that an estimated 33,000 adults in the District of Columbia identified as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, about 8.1% of the adult population in the city.
Religious affiliation
The Pew Research Center 2014 Landscape Study Religion found that between 14% and 25% of the adult population in Washington, D.C. is non-theistic.
According to data from 2000, over 50% of the district's population is identified as Christians; of the 28% of the population are Catholics, 9.1% are American Baptists, 6.8% are Southern Baptists, 1.3% are Eastern or Oriental Orthodox, and 13% are members of other Christian denominations. People who practice Islam make up 10.6% of the population; followers of Judaism wrote 4.5%; and 26.8% of the population obeyed other religions or did not practice religion. The city has the second largest Muslim population in the country which reaches 2.1 ?? (10.6 in the previous sentence?) Percent of the city and there are 134 kosher restaurants.
Historical population
See also
- Art and culture Washington, D.C.
- Miss District of Columbia USA
- Go-go
- Washington, D.C. hardcore
- Crime in Washington, D.C.
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References
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