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Older residents and healthcare jobs in the District of Columbia
The District of Columbia aide figure is a density, not a shortage, and nursing assistants are the small bench.
Someone in the intake called the aide count a shortage before anyone asked what the number was counting.
The District employs 12,810 home health and personal care aides and has 94,423 residents age 65 and over. That is 135.67 aides for every 1,000 of those residents. Read it as a workforce beside an older population. Do not read it as open jobs, and do not tell a board the District has run out of aides.
Nursing assistants are the bench that is actually thin. The District has 3,490 of them, 36.96 jobs for every 1,000 of those same older residents. If the req in the room is assistants, the aide row will comfort the wrong people. Say the assistant figure and drop the shortage story.
Ranked table
| Rank | Occupation | State jobs | Residents age 65 and over | Jobs per 1,000 residents age 65 and over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 12,810 | 94,423 | 135.67 |
| 2 | Registered Nurses | 11,440 | 94,423 | 121.16 |
| 3 | Nursing Assistants | 3,490 | 94,423 | 36.96 |
Takeaways
- Registered nurses hold 11,440 jobs, or 121.16 on that same measure, close to the aide density and nothing like the assistant bench.
- Every row uses the same older-resident count. Do not swap in the all-age civilian count of 690,354.
- The jobs are OEWS employment for May 2025. The residents are the civilian population age 65 and over on July 1, 2025. Neither file is a stack of applications.
- The District of Columbia is 1 of 51 areas, and the page is ordered by the registered-nurse figure, so an aide row can lead without being the sort.
For recruiters
- Put the denominator on the slide. A headcount with no older-resident count is how a density becomes a shortage story.
- Name the license that is actually open. Assistants and aides do not share a bench.
FAQ
- Are these posted wages or open jobs?
- No. The table is a government survey or a designation file.
- What should a recruiter do first?
- Follow the recruiter note on this page.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
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Methodology
Jobs are OEWS May 2025 state employment for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and home health and personal care aides. Residents are the Census Population Estimates Program civilian population age 65 and over on July 1, 2025, Vintage 2025. This is not the ACS tabulation; the ACS API was not used. Jobs per 1,000 residents equals jobs times 1,000 divided by that resident count. It is not a shortage rate and it is not a count of job listings. Areas are ordered by registered-nurse jobs per 1,000 residents age 65 and over. District of Columbia is 1 of 51. Total civilian population in the same file is 690,354.
Sources
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics · May 2025
- Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, civilian population by age and sex · July 1, 2025
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