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About the Data Dashboard

The Data Dashboard provides a detailed look at key indicators of upward mobility in the District. They highlight outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as well as across communities. The dashboard equips leaders, impacted residents, community organizations, researchers, and advocates with the information they need to better understand current inequities and design more effective approaches to advance upward mobility.

The dashboard includes data for the DC Upward Mobility Project’s three policy areas— housing, financial wellbeing, and workforce development/adult education. Explore the data by clicking each topic on this page.

Key Indicators

The following are select indicators that summarize access to opportunity in the District. The dedicated sections of this dashboard for housing, financial wellbeing, and workforce development/adult education present each of these indicators in more detail including breakdowns by race and ethnicity, distribution across wards and census tracts.

Chart 1 shows Black people make up the largest segment of the District’s population at 44.7%, followed by white people at 40.5%, Asian people at 4.1% and people of all other races at 10.8%. Hispanic or Latino people (can be of any race) accounted for 11.3% of the population.

Chart 2 shows median household income for all District households increased between 2011 and 2021. White, Asian, and Hispanic/Latino households’ median incomes all increased, and Black households’ median income remained about the same.

Chart 3 shows over one-third of District households were housing cost burdened between 2017 and 2021.

Chart 4 shows that between 2017 and 2021 the total poverty rate was 15.4%, and a quarter of the District’s Black residents lived in poverty.

Chart 5 shows unemployment among the District’s Black residents was 5.3 times higher than the unemployment rate among white residents.

Chart 6 shows the college graduation rate varied significantly by race and ethnicity among District residents. For example, 31.1% of Black residents graduated from college while 90.8% of white residents had graduated.