Census 2020

A new study and Census Bureau data show U.S. residents moved out of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas and into smaller ones during the pandemic.

A panel of judges has heard arguments over whether the U.S. Census Bureau can use a controversial statistical technique to keep people’s information private in the number...

Officials in the nation’s capital are questioning the results of the 2020 census, which show a large increase in the population of Washington, D.

Minnesotans spent 18 months worrying over whether the 2020 census would finally cost them a precious seat in Congress, expecting to lose one to faster-growing competitors...

The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens of the voting age population cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election.

There were some genuine surprises in the first batch of data from the nation’s 2020 head count released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.

China's government says its population grew last year.

The 2020 census is shifting the clout of some states in presidential politics.

Early projections for the 2020 census didn’t line up with the actual population count for the booming Sun Belt.

Early projections for the 2020 census didn’t line up with the actual population count for the booming Sun Belt.

Georgia gained a million new residents from 2010 to 2020. And while the pace of growth slowed, the state is still growing more rapidly than the nation.

The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and show that America’s population growth has declined to its slowest rate since the Great Depression — a total now of just...

The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and show that America’s population growth has declined to its slowest rate since the Great Depression — a total now of just...

It has been more than a year since the 2020 census began in a remote Alaska village.

It has been more than a year since the 2020 census began in a remote Alaska village.

Florida added 2.7 million people in the last 10 years, surpassing New York as the third-largest state in the nation.

The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and they show that America’s population growth has declined to its slowest rate since the Great Depression — a total now of...

Young adults are leaving states such as New York and California for new destinations including Colorado, Florida and Texas.

The expected release of U.S. Census Bureau data in the coming days is likely to reflect what California demographers have long known, namely that the state is growing at ...

The numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets can’t be released before next Monday.

President Joe Biden says he'll pick the president of the American Statistical Association to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as it works toward releasing data from the 2020 c...

Sixteen states are backing Alabama’s challenge to a new method the Census Bureau is using in an effort to protect the privacy of people who participated in the head count...

After a decade of planning and a head count that was challenged by an unprecedented pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing the first numbers from the 2020 census b...

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is defending a controversial privacy technique being used by the U.S. Census Bureau for the first time in the 2020 census.

A report from two civil rights groups says a method being used for the first time by the U.S. Census Bureau to protect people’s privacy in 2020 census data could make vot...

Two legal challenges to the Trump administration’s execution of the 2020 census neared conclusions this week in the face of changes brought by President Joe Biden’s admin...

Membership at churches and other houses of worship is at its lowest levels since the late 1930s, according to a new report from Gallup.

A delay in census data is scrambling plans in some states to redraw districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Ohio that tried to get the U.S. Census Bureau to provide data used for drawing congressional districts ahead of it...

A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of the pandemic last spring to the start of the ...

Republican senators are expressing frustration that data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts won’t be available until August at the earliest.

States under pressure to redraw congressional and legislature districts but facing a delay in the release of the needed data may be able to get the numbers in an outdated...

A coalition of local governments and civil rights groups sued the U.S. Census Bureau last year to stop it from ending the 2020 census early out of fear it would undercoun...

Alabama is the second state to sue the U.S. Census Bureau to speed up the redistricting process.

There may be fewer metro areas in the U.S. in the near future.

A watchdog agency again has classified the 2020 census as high risk because of efforts last fall by the Trump administration to shorten the door-knocking and data-process...

The U.S. Census Bureau says it won’t be delivering data used for redrawing congressional and state legislative districts until the end of September.

Health officials are on edge as the coronavirus clashes with a Sunday sports event that typically brings millions of people together: the NFL Super Bowl.

The human loss from the pandemic will not be reflected in the U.S. population count used for divvying up congressional seats among the states.

As the U.S. economy undergoes an uneven recovery from the coronavirus, many small business owners face a tough decision on whether and when to take on employees.