Great news for those of us living and working here! D.C. has weathered the economic storm the past couple of years better than any where else in the country.....D.C. area's population is still blooming : Data shows brisk growth 163,000 gain in 2 years; people...
Washington area population rises faster than other regions
By Carol Morello
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
New census statistics released Tuesday show that the Washington region's population has continued to grow at a brisk pace since the onset of the economic downturn, another indicator that the area has weathered the recession better than other parts of the country. In the two years preceding July 1, 2009, the region added 163,000 people, bringing the total to almost 5.5 million residents -- a growth rate of about 3 percent that is faster than that of any other Eastern Seaboard city. Metropolitan New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore all grew by less than 1 percent during the same period, and the Boston area's population increased by about 2 percent.
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