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DC's Racial Divide, Circa 2000

  • September 20th 2010

by Mark Wellborn

DCist has featured a fascinating map of the ethnic breakdown of the DC metropolitan area, based on data from the 2000 Census. The colored dots on the map below, created by Eric Fischer, correspond to 25-person groups of specific ethnicities (red represents White, blue represents Black, green represents Asian, orange represents Hispanic).

DC's Racial Divide, Circa 2000: Figure 1
Courtesy of Eric Fischer and DCist

The racial divide illustrated by the map is extremely noticeable, with red dots dominating much of Northwest and blue dots filling Northeast and Wards 7 and 8. The white section near the top of the map that is Rock Creek Park shows how much of a dividing line the park was between white and black communities in 2000. Also, it is interesting to get a bird’s eye view of Capitol Hill (that little pocket of red toward the lower right corner of the map).

Hopefully Fischer will create similar maps once the 2010 Census data is released, as it will be interesting to see how things have changed during the past ten years.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/dcs_racial_divide_circa_2000/2492.

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