Via District, Measured.

The data tells a familiar story.

Person moves to the District because of a job, or in the hopes of landing one. Between 2000 and 2014, 165,472 people moved here for work or to seek a job—more than three times the next highest reason, to “attend/leave college.”

Person moves out of the District because the rent is too damn high or the house prices are too damn high. Between those same years, nearly 130,000 people moved out of the District for a “housing reason” and another 116,000 left for “new or better housing.”

Those figures are from the Current Population Survey data, courtesy of the District, Measured blog.

They note that D.C. has added 90,000 net new residents in those years, but that figure masks how high mobility has been. With more than half a million people moving into D.C. between 2000 and 2014, that averages out to about 8 percent of the city’s population each year.

Within the city, there is a great deal of movement, too. Nearly 60,000 people, or about 9 percent of the population, moved houses within the District in 2014.

Courtesy District, Measured.