Ethno-Demography
Evolution of DC: Districting the District Through Ethnicity
Through the usage of the Social Explorer tool, I was able to show the evolution of Washington D.C's population change through tracking the two major racial classifications in DC, black and white. In correlation with the economic-demography evolution chart, viewers can 1. track how much race and class are intertwined and 2. track where certain groups are/ aren't placed due to gentrification.
Ahmed Braxton
Ahmed Braxton
Ahmed Braxton
7/12/15
Ahmed Braxton
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Economic Demography
Evolution of neighborhoods and areas in Washington, DC corresponding to economic classifications.
Through the usage of the Social Explorer tool, I was able to show the evolution of Washington D.C's population change through tracking the two major racial classifications in DC, black and white. In conjunction with the ethnic-demography evolution chart, viewers can 1. track how much race and class are intertwined and 2. track where certain groups are/ aren't placed due to gentrification.
Ahmed Braxton
Ahmed Braxton
Ahmed Braxton
7/12/15
Ahmed Braxton
Ahmed Braxton
Young, highly educated new residents are driving demand
Share of 2011 DC Residents by Where They Lived a Year Ago
The chart depicted takes a crack at analyzing the previously discussed analysis of forced flight out of one's own community. According to this chart, Washington DC natives are tremendously decreasing in the city, while people coming from outside of DC for the majority of their lives are rapidly augmenting. The moral of the story is displacement is a thing...a giant, the Loch Ness monster of housing knowledge, only understood by those who witness its presence imaginary to those who do not live through it.
Creator: Tim Meko of Urban Institute
American Community Survey 2011 microdata. obtained from (PUMS-USA) tabulated by NeighborhoodInfo DC
Urban Institute
October 2014
Written by Peter Taitan and Serena Lei
Research by Peter Taitan, Leah Hendrey, and Katya Abazjian
Visuals by Tim Meko
Copyright of Urban Institute. I do not own the rights to this source.
High-cost units account for a bigger share of rentals
Renter-Occupied Housing Units by Gross Rent (
The chart depicted illustrates the progressive decline of lower-cost / affordable housing units. As affordable housing units in the Washington D.C area began to deplete, their was an escalated augmentation of housing with mionthly rent of $1,000.00. With this happening, essentially people who cannot afford this price range are forced to either intenstely struggle to survive or forced to leave the area, abandoning their native home..
Accounts for the time period of 2005- 2012
Tim Meko of Urban Institute
American Community Survey data tabulated
Urban Institute
October 2014
Written by Peter Taitan and Serena Lei
Research by Peter Taitan, Leah Hendrey, and Katya Abazjian
Visuals by Tim Meko
Copyright of Urban Institute. I do not own the rights to this source.
Chart/Visual Graph
Visual Representation of Housing Information
Housing Prices
To the left
What is displayed is ow prices for single-family housing has skyrocketed for neighborhoods in Washington DC. Leaving the people who are stuck between lower middle class and hovering on that line of poverty in a position of barley being able to live in the nation's capitol.