Non-Hispanic whites account for 35 percent of populationNon-Hispanic blacks are on the verge of losing their majority in the District of Columbia as their population is being pushed out to the south and east of the city while the central city becomes increasingly diverse and whites concentrate in the western half of the District, new census data show.
| District by the numbers | |||
| D.C.’s total population increased to 601,723. | |||
| 2010 population | Share | Change from 2000 | |
| Non-Hispanic whites | 209,464 | 34.8% | +50,286 (+31.6%) |
| Non-Hispanic blacks | 301,053 | 50.0% | -39,035 (-11.5%) |
| Non-Hispanic Asians | 20,818 | 3.5% | +5,779 (+38.4%) |
| Hispanic or Latino | 54,749 | 9.1% | +9,796 (+21.8%) |
| Total population | Share of D.C. | Change from 2000 | |
| Ward 1 | 76,197 | 12.7% | +2,833 (+3.9%) |
| Ward 2 | 79,915 | 13.3% | +11,046 (+16.0%) |
| Ward 3 | 77,152 | 12.8% | +3,434 (+4.7%) |
| Ward 4 | 75,773 | 12.6% | +594 (+0.8%) |
| Ward 5 | 74,308 | 12.3% | +2,868 (+4.0%) |
| Ward 6 | 76,598 | 12.7% | 8,563 (+12.6%) |
| Ward 7 | 71,068 | 11.8% | +541 (+0.8%) |
| Ward 8 | 70,712 | 11.8% | -215 (-0.3%) |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau | |||
Non-Hispanic black residents have dropped by more than 39,000 people and now account for just 50 percent of D.C.’s population. By comparison, non-Hispanic blacks comprised 70 percent of the District’s population at the peak of expansion in 1980, according to Benjamin Orr, a Brookings Institution research analyst. Meanwhile white, Asian and Hispanic populations are all on the rise.
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