How Diverse Were City Cast DC’s Podcast Guests in 2025?

City Cast is committed to tracking–and publishing–demographic information about our podcast guests. Diversity is a core City Cast value, and accountability is another. We want to have podcast guests who are diverse in race and ethnicity, gender, economic background, and geography. Tracking and publicizing guest demographics is a way to hold us accountable for representing the diversity of DC.

So are we living up to our values? How diverse is our podcast guest pool, really?

This is the third year of data we have about City Cast DC’s guests. (Here’s our report for 2024.) We ask each of our City Cast DC podcast guests a few questions about their gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and neighborhood. About 80% of guests responded in 2025.The following data encompass a total of 70 guests who appeared on the podcast between Nov. 1, 2024 and Dec. 31, 2025.. (We did not count City Cast DC staffers who appeared on the podcast.)

We then used census data to compare our podcast guests to the broader city and metro populations. This helps us see how well we’re reflecting the community we’re serving.

As you can see in the chart, City Cast DC’s guests were more white than the population of the city and region. We had fewer Hispanic/Latinx guests than you’d expect, given the local population. Only 8% of City Cast DC guests were Black, down sharply from 23 percent in 2024.

We also asked about gender identity. About 47 percent of our guests identified as female, with 52% identifying as male and 2% identifying as non-binary.

Learn more about guest diversity on other City Cast podcasts here.