Using a Sankey Chart to Visualize Racial and Ethnic Neighborhood Change in Washington, D.C.

Alexander Din
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the official positions or policies of the Office of Policy Development and Research, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or the U.S. Government.

Washington, D.C., has experienced demographic change for the past century. These changes across neighborhoods can be multidimensional and complex to convey. This article uses three visualizations to show racial and ethnic change in Washington, D.C. In particular, the Sankey Chart shows how the dominant racial and ethnic group changed at the neighborhood level from 2010 to 2020, including between different categorizations.