Mapping D.C.’s changing neighborhoods
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To help update our 2015 and 2016 reporting on the District’s changing neighborhoods, Hola Cultura volunteer Katherine Jolly used U.S. Census data to map neighborhoods popular among D.C. residents between the ages of 25 and 34 years old.
The darker shades show census tracks with larger percentages of residents in the 25- to 34-year-old age group.
As these 2009, 2012 and 2015 maps illustrate, central D.C. neighborhoods have grown popular among members of a key segment of the so-called “Millennial Generation.” Experts credit these “millennials” with making city living popular again in the District and many other cities nationwide. But the large influx of wealthier, college-educated and predominantly white newcomers has spurred dramatic increases in real estate values that have priced many less affluent residents out of the District, according to experts.
The map below shows census tracks that gained 25- to 34-year-olds and a few places around the city with declines in this age group. As all four maps illustrate, neighborhoods in the center of D.C. have attracted increasing numbers of adults in the 25- to 34-year-old age range.
Sources: the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Surveys for 2009, 2012 and 2015
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