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Originally Posted by Ant131531
Ironically enough, if you look at metro growth, DC's metro growth has slowed down since 2010. It was growing at rates of like 130k people per year in 2010 and has slowed down to just 63k a year between 2014-2015 so something is happening. D.C.'s city growth is steady or slightly accelerating, but metro growth is slowing down. I don't believe the DC area will grow 1 million over the next 10 years at all unless this is counting the Baltimore area in the stats which it's not.
Ironically enough, if you look at metro growth, DC's metro growth has slowed down since 2010. It was growing at rates of like 130k people per year in 2010 and has slowed down to just 63k a year between 2014-2015 so something is happening. D.C.'s city growth is steady or slightly accelerating, but metro growth is slowing down. I don't believe the DC area will grow 1 million over the next 10 years at all unless this is counting the Baltimore area in the stats which it's not.
Growth by Year
2010: 88,337
2011: 142,085
2012: 94,360
2013: 91,762
2014: 69,452
2015: 63,793
Why does DC have such high negative net domestic migration? 2011 was the only year in the last 6 years where it was substantially high . How does it drop off so rapidly?
D.C., for the first time in 60 years, is growing faster than the suburbs. The projections have been for the suburban growth to slow and the city growth to speed up. That is also what we're seeing on the ground in real time. DC is booming and absorbing most of the growth. An MSA is only as strong as its principal city. A DC metro area with a principal city over 1 million people with a density approaching 20,000 people per square mile will be a major attraction to visitors from all over the world even more so than it is now.
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D.C., for the first time in 60 years, is growing faster than the suburbs. The projections have been for the suburban growth to slow and the city growth to speed up. That is also what we're seeing on the ground in real time. DC is booming and absorbing most of the growth. An MSA is only as strong as its principal city. A DC metro area with a principal city over 1 million people with a density approaching 20,000 people per square mile will be a major attraction to visitors from all over the world even more so than it is now.
Don't hold your breath on that happening any time soon. If it were to happen, It would probably take a good half century. And that's with uninterrupted growth, both human and economical. We all know things don't stay on a upward trend forever with no blips.
Don't hold your breath on that happening any time soon. If it were to happen, It would probably take a good half century. And that's with uninterrupted growth, both human and economical. We all know things don't stay on a upward trend forever with no blips.
The projection I'm speaking of is for the years 2045-2050.
That is if growth trends hold, but seeing as republicans have taken over the entire government. The fed, and thus DC is looking at the possibility of a major contraction.
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