{"id":1150,"date":"2009-12-24T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2009-12-24T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T17:35:21","slug":"600000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/600000\/","title":{"rendered":"600,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/travelinlibrarian\/4187788752\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2765\/4187788752_043d175ab8.jpg?resize=250%2C188\" alt=\"2010 Census Mug - CC image from flickr\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2010 Census Mug - CC image from flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ryan Avent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanavent.com\/blog\/?p=2263\">takes note<\/a> of some joyous holiday news for the District:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I always love looking through new population estimates from the Census Bureau. New numbers, estimated as of July 2009, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/popest\/states\/states.html\">just come out<\/a>, and it appears the District is just a few hundred people short of crossing the 600,000 threshold. From 2008 to 2009, the District was the fifth fastest growing state, in percentage terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full dataset is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/popest\/states\/states.html\">available here<\/a>.\u00a0 DC&#8217;s estimate from July 2009 puts the population at 599,657.\u00a0 This obviously puts the 600,000 number within reach for the 2010 Census.\u00a0 However, crossing that threshold isn&#8217;t a given, as the methodology from the Census&#8217;s population estimates in the intervening years between each decennial census vary quite a bit from the forms everyone will be filling out in March of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, it&#8217;s vital that DC achieve a complete and accurate count in 2010.\u00a0 600,000 isn&#8217;t just a nice round number to pass, as it shows a real growth and reinvestment in both DC specifically and urban areas in general that&#8217;s taken place over the past few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Avent takes note of some joyous holiday news for the District: I always love looking through new population estimates from the Census Bureau. New numbers, estimated as of July 2009, have just come out, and it appears the District is just a few hundred people short of crossing the 600,000 threshold. From 2008 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,100,448,101],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demographics","tag-2010-census","tag-census","tag-dc","tag-population"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sHcGQ-600000","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}