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Laurence Aurbach on June 18, 2018 at 12:22 pm

Michael, yes, I see now that the 88% figure is wrong. (Here's a corrected link to the source.)

I checked the census data for 2010-2016. DC gained 19,229 households total, and gained 8721 carfree households. If we assume that none of the existing households went carfree during that time, then 45% of new households were carfree.

The overall percentage of carfree household rose from 35.7% in 2010 to a peak of 36.7% in 2013. Then it dropped slightly to 36.4 in 2016.

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