D.C. Flushes Out the Competition with Number of Toilets Per Person

Great Scott! D.C. sits high on the throne when it comes to the toilet-people ratio.

Real estate brokerage company Redfin used census and housing data to find the cities with the highest residential toilets per person.

The District ranked second with 98 toilets for every 100 people, or 5,460,900 total toilets. Only Boulder, Co. beat the nation’s capital with an estimated 102 residential toilets per 100 people.

A study by the American Water Works Association reported that every residential toilet is flushed an average of five times a day. If the average toilet takes 3.5 gallons to flush, then D.C. residents use around 95,565,750 gallons of water to flush toilets every day. That amount of water fills over 140 Olympic-size swimming pools.

People mean business when it comes to, well, their business. One toilet per household is no longer the norm as it was years ago.

“It’s definitely a consumer-driven trend,” D.C. Redfin agent Leslie White said in the report. “I don’t know when it took place, but having a master bathroom off the main bedroom is now seen as a requirement, whereas years ago, it was considered a luxury. I’ve toured lovely 100-year-old row houses, but if there’s only one bathroom for the three bedrooms on the top floor, my clients’ faces fall. They need that extra bathroom.”

For the full list of top 37 cities with the most toilets per person visit here.

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