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English: Based upon the US counties map but cut down to show only the Washington, DC metropolitan area and then clipped to a rectangular region Source File:Usa_counties_large.svg
The area's estimated total population of 6,304,975 [7] (as of 2023) makes it the country's seventh-most populous metropolitan area [8] and the second-largest metropolitan area in the Census Bureau's South Atlantic division after Metro Atlanta. [9] It is one of the country's most educated and affluent metropolitan areas. [10]
The metro DC area is the second-most popular destination for African immigrants, after New York City. More than 192,000 African-born people live in DC and nearby suburbs as of 2019, just shy of the 194,000 African-born in New York. [37] This includes Nigerians with 19,600 residents and Ghanaians with 18,400. [38]
The United States District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) is the primary city of two statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). ). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA and the more extensive Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA
The use of housing unit density as an alternative minimum for inclusion: either 2,000 housing units or a population of 5,000 may qualify an area as an urban area. Previously, this minimum was 2,500 in population. The lowering of the allowable "jump distance" from 2.5 to 1.5 miles.
Commuters from the city's Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. [12] The Washington metropolitan area, which includes parts of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, is the country's seventh-largest metropolitan area, with a 2023 population of 6.3 million residents. [6]
The Dallas-Fort Worth area added 152,598 residents between July 2022 and July 2023, according to new data from the Census Bureau. Right behind it was the Houston metro area, which saw another ...
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography. The names of 131 neighborhoods are unofficially defined by the D.C. Office of Planning. [ 1 ]