Every single block group in Olympia declined in the percentage of “white only” respondents. This isn’t saying a great deal. Olympia’s most diverse neighborhood is 62 percent white, it’s least diverse is 90 percent white. Taking Thurston County’s rate of diversification (going from over 80 percent white to just over 70 percent) as a measuring…
Month: October 2021
Where Olympia didn’t grow (and even lost population) in the last 10 years (this time with census data!)
Olympia’s neighborhoods saw varying patterns of population growth and contraction over the past 10 years. Olympia grew by almost 10,000 residents and Thurston County as a whole grew by over 40,000 in the 2010s. Obviously population growth is not evenly spread across the county. But it is amazing to see that while the population of…