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Our new official population: 672,228

The District of Columbia added 12,392 residents between July 1, 2014 and July 1, 2015, for an increase of 1.88 percent, according to the latest Census estimate. That makes D.C. the third-fastest growing “state” per capita (here is your obligatory annual reminder that Wyoming and Vermont both have smaller populations than our fair disenfranchised District).

Courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Since the 2000 Census, the District has grown by more than 100,000 people. After several recent years of large increases, the rate slowed down a bit last year.

2010: 605,125
2011: 619,624 (+14,499)
2012: 633,427 (+13,803)
2013: 646,449 (+13,022)
2014: 658,893 (+ 9,782)
2015: 672,228 (+12,392)

But the new figures mean that D.C. is once again growing at a rate of more than 1,000 residents a month.

“I am encouraged by the new census numbers,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a release. “More and more people are choosing to call the District of Columbia ‘home,’ and my Administration is working hard to sustain our growth and to ensure that residents in all eight wards share in our prosperity.”

The latest population estimates also indicate that the city is likely to surpass its record population—802,000 in 1950—within the next twenty years. The District’s baby boom is contributing to the cause: each year since 2013 has seen more than 9,400 babies born to D.C. mothers, according to the District’s State Data Center.

“We have been planning with this growth in mind,” said Eric D. Shaw, Director of the DC Office of Planning. “And we continue to plan for not the just the overall growth, but recognize that we need to be responsive to the changing characteristics of the population, more specifically children and families.”