Hispanics are leaving the District’s historically Salvadoran neighborhoods and moving to places along the Georgia Avenue corridor, new Census Bureau data shows, a shift experts attribute to the rising cost of living in Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights. The transition over the last decade has been led by Salvadorans, who increased their share of the District’s 54,749 Hispanics to more than 30 percent, up from 26 percent in 2000. While neighborhoods in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant saw their Salvadoran population drop between 13 percent and 33 percent, Salvadorans in the Park View and Brightwood neighborhoods more than doubled by 2010.

The overall Hispanic population fell by nearly one-quarter in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant while it grew by nearly 50 percent in the Georgia Avenue neighborhoods.