Photo by Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie.

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. It’s the first time that the District has experienced growth in the decennial count in six decades — in 1950, the population of the District jumped to 802,178, but had been dwindling since. The total population of the United States was revealed to be 308,745,538, which is the smallest growth the country has experienced since the 1930s. Also, plenty of Congressional apportionments were switched around due to the results. (Note: the District still has zero.) Information has been a bit slow to pop on the Census’ website this morning, but you should be able to play around with the data with this interactive tool at some point today.

UPDATE: The Census Bureau appears to still be uploading data — but there’s an embeddable version of the tool we linked to above, which we’ve added below. Ooooh, shiny.