The District’s reputation as “Chocolate City” is still intact, but only barely, according to figures released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Over the next decade, residents of wards 1 and 2 are going to be real busy procreating, producing kids at a level higher than any other part of the city.

Three D.C. zip codes encompassing Shaw, Bloomingdale, Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, Logan Circle, and parts of downtown D.C. are among those across the country that have seen the highest jump in white residents over the last decade.

People are coming to D.C. from all over, but can they afford to stay?

The news that the District’s Latino population keeps growing isn’t new, but now you can better visualize how the city’s shifting fortunes have affected where Latinos tend to live.

You can’t get into a conversation about the District without inevitably talking about how divided it is. That’s because it’s true.

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.

Friend of DCist Matt Yglesias tweets that the New York Times’ incredibly cool Netflix popularity maps are a “fascinating window into DC area’s socioeconomic divides.” And how! Sure, most everybody was renting The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Twilight, and State of Play. But consider the clean break — located along the Anacostia River — between the areas of popularity of Milk and Lakeview Terrace, among others. Personally, we’re just bummed that the excellent Man…

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…

Vapiano: Hopefully Better than the Name Sounds DCist swung by the opening dinner last night at Vapiano, now open at 1800 M Street NW. It’s a European-based pizza, pasta, and salad bar that claims to be leading a new trend in the restaurant industry deemed “Fresh Casual” (which was strange, given the greeters at the dinner were dressed to the nines). What does that mean? Vapiano explains it as “somewhere between the nicest of fast…