Sesame Street might not be experiencing a boom in its gay population, but Maryland and Virginia certainly are. more ›

Well, that's kind of an impossible question to answer. But are there more people in D.C. willing to identify as homosexual, bisexual or otherwise non-heterosexual when taking an anonymous survey over the phone? That we have data on! more ›

Dear reader: did you realize that Washington -- a seat of power which houses several large undergraduate universities, and a city whose economy depends quite a bit on young, cheap, driven labor -- is an attractive destination for young people? No? Well then, it's a good thing that the Washington Post is here to remind us! more ›

Do you like numbers? The District? Spreadsheets? Well, then today's like Christmas and your birthday rolled into one. All the vital information you might want to know about the District's new Census figures can be found in the PDF below and at this link. more ›

We learned back in December that the District broke the 600,000 resident barrier in the 2010 U.S. Census -- the first time the District had seen a growth in population in the decennial count since 1950. But today comes the real beef of the survey: this afternoon, the Census Bureau released all the information about the head count at the Census tract level, giving us an intricate view of what areas in the city are growing and which aren't. more ›

The U.S. Census Bureau released new statistics yesterday concerning the population makeup of Maryland. One of the interesting takeaways: Montgomery County is now a "minority-majority" jurisdiction, as non-hispanic whites now account for 49 percent of the county's population. more ›

The United States might have hit a bit of a slowdown when it comes to growth, but the District is kicking tail. The U.S. Census Bureau released its first round of population counts from the 2010 Census this morning, and the District's population was revealed to be 601,723, an increase of 5.19 percent. more ›

D.C. Wire reported some new census figures earlier today that show that Washington, D.C.'s African-American population continues to dwindle, while the presence of whites, Latinos and Asians continues to grow. The city is now about 54 percent black, 40 percent white, 4 percent Asian and 9 percent Hispanic. Those figures compare to 61 percent black and 34 percent white in 2000, which translates to 27,000 African-American residents moving out and 40,000 whites moving in over the course of 2000 to 2008. Some estimates predict that pace could mean D.C. would cease being a majority African-American city by 2020, if not sooner. more ›

Former DCist editor-in-chief Ryan Avent can often be found doing the yeoman's task of sorting through census data on his blog, but he dug up a couple of real gems in a recently released stack of paper: July 2009 estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau estimate that D.C. is but a few hundred people short of crossing the 600,000 mark. The upswing would make it the fifth fastest growing "state" in the union, if that's the way you'd rather digest the information. more ›

That's the conclusion of former DCist editor and urban planner Rob Goodspeed, who has crunched the most recent numbers on his blog. Goodspeed predicts that Washington's long history as a majority-black city will come to an end as soon as 2014, at which time the city's black population will make up just above 49 percent of residents, with whites, Asians and other ethnic groups making up the rest of the population. The projection puts the demographic change arriving at least six years prior to the estimate made by Robert Lang, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, when he was quoted in a Washington Post story on the subject last year. more ›