For all that changed in the District in 2006, nothing was perhaps as significant — to outgoing Mayor Anthony Williams at least — than the increase in population acknowledged by the Census Bureau.

In July came word that the federal government had agreed to boost the city’s population by about 30,000 as of July 1, 2005, from 550,521 to 582,049.

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