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District of Columbia / District of Columbia

How's District of Columbia?

Yearly figures for District of Columbia, District of Columbia, from public data, with each one's source and rank one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

District of Columbia year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$2,479+4.8%+20.4%+46.2%Highest quartile10 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 1 of 1 in District of Columbia
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives741.6K jobs−2.4%+2.1%−0.3%Highest quartile30 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 1 of 1 in District of Columbia

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air2025 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days66.0% of days+2.4 pts−1.7 pts+27.7 pts3rd quartile686 of 916 counties in 2025 · 1 of 1 in District of Columbia
Median daily AQI2025 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate45 AQI0.0 AQI+1.0 AQI−8.0 AQIHighest quartile158 of 916 counties in 2025 · 1 of 1 in District of Columbia

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks District of Columbia against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is District of Columbia and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.