District of Columbia
DC · 1 congressional seat · 2 Senate seats · Federal money in District of Columbia
District of Columbia by congressional district
District of Columbia broken into its seats. Click a district to open its own page, where every figure below is measured against the boundaries in force when it was published.
District of Columbia’s economy
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes no inflation rate for District of Columbia: prices are collected from a sample built for the nation, the four Census regions and a handful of large metro areas, and nothing in it supports a state figure. The nearest published figure is the South region's, below. See inflation for the country and the four regions.
| Measure | Value | Over a year | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross domestic product | $184.3B | up $10.0B | 2024 |
| Real GDP growth | 1.3% | already a 12-month change | 2024 |
| GDP per person | $266,592 | up 4.4% | 2024 |
| Payroll jobs | 719.9kprelim. | down 27.0k | August 2026 |
| Jobs added over 12 months | -27,000prelim. | already a 12-month change | August 2026 |
| Unemployment rate (monthly) | 5.7%prelim. | down 0.8 pp | August 2026 |
| Covered jobs | 759.7k | no figure a year earlier | 2024 |
| Average weekly wage | $2,365 | no figure a year earlier | 2024 |
| Personal income per person | $112,944 | up 5.2% | 2024 |
| Goods exported | $3.7B | up $943.2M | 2025 |
| Goods imported | $1.1B | down $636.8M | 2025 |
| Trade balance in goods | $2.6B | up $1.6B | 2025 |
| Business establishments | 52.2k | no figure a year earlier | 2024 |
Every figure here is one its source published for District of Columbiaitself — nothing is summed from the districts. Payroll jobs and the monthly unemployment rate are seasonally adjusted, and the two newest months of the payroll series are preliminary and get revised. Output is counted where production happens and income where people live, so the two say different things about the same state. An arrow is coloured by the direction its own measure counts as improvement — green on rising output, jobs, income and exports, green on a falling unemployment rate — and stays grey where there is no such direction to claim, as for imports and the count of businesses. The colour is not a claim about anybody.
Latest figures
Click one of the figures to see how it has changed over time.
| Indicator | Value | Margin of error | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total population | 681,294 | — | 2020-2024 |
| Median age | 34.9 yrs | ± 0.1 yrs | 2020-2024 |
| Median household income | $109,870 | ± $1,937 | 2020-2024 |
| Poverty rate | 15.4% | ± 0.7% | 2020-2024 |
| Child poverty rate | 22.8% | ± 1.4% | 2020-2024 |
| Unemployment rate | 6.3% | ± 0.4% | 2020-2024 |
| Households receiving SNAP | 14.3% | ± 0.6% | 2020-2024 |
| Income inequality (Gini index) | 0.517 | ± 0.006 | 2020-2024 |
| Median home value | $737,100 | ± $10,625 | 2020-2024 |
| Median gross rent | $1,954 | ± $26 | 2020-2024 |
| Cost-burdened renters | 46.6% | ± 1.3% | 2020-2024 |
| Homeownership rate | 41.5% | ± 0.8% | 2020-2024 |
| Housing vacancy rate | 10.1% | ± 0.5% | 2020-2024 |
| Uninsured rate | 3.6% | ± 0.2% | 2020-2024 |
| Disability rate | 11.5% | ± 0.4% | 2020-2024 |
| Drug overdose deaths | 58.1 per 100k | — | 2022-2024 |
| Child mortality | 69.8 per 100k | — | 2020-2024 |
| Low birth weight | 10.1% | — | 2020-2024 |
| Teen birth rate | 1.1 per 1k | ± 1.3 per 1k | 2020-2024 |
| Bachelor's degree or higher | 64.2% | ± 0.9% | 2020-2024 |
| Households without internet access | 5.9% | ± 0.5% | 2020-2024 |
| Firearm fatalities | 25.6 per 100k | — | 2020-2024 |
| Injury deaths | 123.1 per 100k | — | 2020-2024 |
| Motor vehicle crash deaths | 7.6 per 100k | — | 2020-2024 |
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey; CDC WONDER, National Center for Health Statistics. Margins of error are at the 90% confidence level. An estimate is not a count. Every figure here is one its source published for District of Columbia itself. Nothing is averaged up from the districts, because five of these indicators are medians and the average of medians is not a median, and nothing is summed from counties. No figure here is shown as a change since anybody took office: a state has two senators who took their seats in different years, so there is no single tenure to measure from.
Median household income over time, 2005-2009 to 2020-2024
Pick an indicator, and a second to compare it with. Where they share a unit and a scale they are read against one axis; where they do not, the second gets an axis of its own on the right — nothing is rebased or rescaled to make two units meet. Tick the box to draw them apart instead.
Half of households in District of Columbia earn more than this, half less.
| Period | Median income | In 2025 dollars | Margin of error | United States (reference) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-2009 | $56,519 | $84,815 | ± $913 | $51,425 |
| 2006-2010 | $58,526 | $86,409 | ± $982 | $51,914 |
| 2007-2011 | $61,835 | $88,501 | ± $831 | $52,762 |
| 2008-2012 | $64,267 | $90,117 | ± $977 | $53,046 |
| 2009-2013 | $65,830 | $90,976 | ± $1,006 | $53,046 |
| 2010-2014 | $69,235 | $94,154 | ± $1,127 | $53,482 |
| 2011-2015 | $70,848 | $96,234 | ± $843 | $53,889 |
| 2012-2016 | $72,935 | $97,834 | ± $1,164 | $55,322 |
| 2013-2017 | $77,649 | $101,985 | ± $1,075 | $57,652 |
| 2014-2018 | $82,604 | $105,906 | ± $1,081 | $60,293 |
| 2015-2019 | $86,420 | $108,827 | ± $1,008 | $62,843 |
| 2016-2020 | $90,842 | $113,001 | ± $1,580 | $64,994 |
| 2017-2021 | $93,547 | $111,144 | ± $1,718 | $69,021 |
| 2018-2022 | $101,722 | $111,902 | ± $1,569 | $75,149 |
| 2019-2023 | $106,287 | $112,301 | ± $1,803 | $78,538 |
| 2020-2024 | $109,870 | $112,761 | ± $1,937 | $80,734 |
The "in 2025 dollars" figures are the published ones restated for inflation with the BLS Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, all items, annual average. A five-year estimate is published in the dollars of its final year, so 2016-2020 is adjusted from 2020 dollars. The adjustment is the same for every place in a period, so it changes no ranking; it says what a figure from an earlier period would be in today's money. It is not a local cost of living, and the margin of error is still the published one.
Nominal dollars as published for each period -- not inflation-adjusted. A median cannot be averaged across areas, so this is published district-level data only.
This is a median or an index. It is published as measured and is never re-aggregated from smaller areas — averaging medians does not produce a median.
Districts
Who has represented District of Columbia
Every senator who has held one of District of Columbia’s two seats, newest first. The record carries no Senate class, so this is one chronology rather than two seat lineages — and unlike a district, a state is the same ground throughout, so there is nothing to break the list at.
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