The laws of nature seem to be holding forth over the capital city — if ZipSkinny.com is anything to go by.
The Web site, which aggregates U.S. Census data by zip codes, provides a healthy compare and contrast among neighboring districts.
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You also get to see that old rule of nature: that youth and money are often mutually exclusive. Take zip code 20006. It has only 1,874 residents, thanks to all the office buildings, and a median income of only $5,700. What? Smack in the middle of downtown D.C.? Yes. After all, 87 percent of residents are in their teens or twenties — it’s right in George Washington University’s neighborhood — and those students don’t all work.
If you’re a little older and have some money, perhaps you’ll want to live in 20015 right along the Maryland border. There the average age is 46 (that, surprisingly, makes it the oldest part of D.C.), and the median income is $97,000 (that, surprisingly, makes it the richest part of D.C. as well).
Adams Morgan, zip code 20009, provides a tight-packed district, with the highest population density. A whopping 46,000 residents live there — double the population of Georgetown and Glover Park combined.
Skip across the river, and you arrive at poor Arlington, where the average age is 33 but only 40 percent of the population is married. Compare it to exurban Leesburg, which also sports an average age of 33, but 62 percent of its residents are married. Indeed, Leesburg’s burghers make almost double what Arlingtonites do ($71,000 compared with $47,000).
And yet, if money is the name of the game, the undisputed king in Virginia is Great Falls. With an astonishing median income of $154,000, 75 percent of the population of Great Falls is married, and most amazingly the community has managed to eviscerate its twenty-something population.
Naturally, for Marylanders the area where the young run wild is Navy-dominated Annapolis, average age 21, or College Park, average age 23. Potomac, zip code 20854, remains the richest part of the state, but Bethesda is just one spot behind.
