Oct
21
2005

population boom

The population of Washington, D.C., swells by 71.8 percent — from 572,059 people to 982,853 — during the day, according to new daytime population estimates released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Among major cities, the District has one of the highest disparities in the country between the number of people who live there and the number of people in the city — commuting workers, students, etc. — during the day.

Also interesting locally: The population of Tysons Corner, Va., jumps 291.9 percent during the day, from 18,540 to 72,651. (The positively insane traffic in Tysons seems to validate this statistic.)

(Link found via Al’s Morning Meeting.)

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Posted at 9:08 AM in washington, dc

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