D.C.'s vast income gap is widening

The District’s wealthiest community earns more than three times the household income of the city’s poorest area — a massive income gap that has grown wider over the past five years. D.C.’s wealthiest residents live in the neighborhoods between Georgetown and Friendship Heights, an area rich with million-dollar homes, lived in by some of the city’s top wage-earners. The median income of households there is more than $103,000 annually, according to the Census Bureau’s latest American Community Survey data.

That’s about $71,000 more than the city’s poorest area across the Anacostia River, an income gap that has increased 45 percent over the past five years.