Florida’s growth reflected two key issues in the Census Bureau data: international migration and population increases in the South.

A U.S. Supreme Court case involving North Carolina's congressional districts could have ramifications for the way voting districts are drawn in other states.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s chief is defending a new tool meant to protect the privacy of people participating in the agency’s questionnaires against calls to abandon it by prominent researchers and demographers.

Democrats won all three of the most competitive congressional races in Pennsylvania this election cycle.

Three races among Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation have taken shape as some of the closer contests in the country this year.

Want to know the age and sex breakdown of people of Japanese ancestry in your U.S. state or territory.

The U.S. House race in Oregon's newly created 6th Congressional District is closer than expected.

Two Louisiana parishes devastated by two hurricanes and two rural Nebraska counties had among the highest rates of households with missing information about themselves during the 2020 census that required the U.S. Census Bureau to use a statistical technique to fill in gaps.

It’s not every day that a small hamlet in the Missouri Ozarks is in the middle of everything.

Detroit is suing the U.S. Census Bureau over population estimates from last year that show the city lost an additional 7,100 residents.

A watchdog group has determined that some census takers who falsified information during the 2020 census didn’t have their work redone fully, weren’t fired in a timely manner and in some cases even received bonuses.

The House has passed legislation on a party-line vote that aims to make it harder for future presidents to interfere in the once-a-decade headcount that determines political power and federal funding.

During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spend more than a third of their income on rent went up.

Income inequality in the U.S. increased last year for the first time in more than a decade.

Democratic lawmakers are intent on making sure that unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to politicize the 2020 census never happen again.

The next U.S. census isn’t until 2030, but already Census Bureau leaders are looking for ways to adapt to a roiled civic climate that only seems to be getting more contentious.

Prominent demographers are asking the U.S. Census Bureau to abandon a controversial method for protecting survey and census participants’ confidentiality.

A federal judge has tossed out a public records lawsuit on the 2020 census based on the interpretation of one obscure word: “whereby.”.

It turns out millennials haven't strayed very far from the areas where they grew up.

Organizers and members of Philadelphia's Chinatown say they were surprised by the 76ers' announcement that they hope to build a $1.3 billion arena just a block from the community’s gateway arch.

Some Trump administration officials had initial doubts that it was legal to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census but pressed forward and attempted to add it.

A U.S. Census Bureau director couldn’t be fired without cause and new questions to a census form would have to be vetted by Congress under proposed legislation that attempts to prevent in the future the type of political interference into the nation’s head count that took place during the Trump administration.

State legislatures will be in the spotlight as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling giving the power to regulate abortion to the states.

Metro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county.

The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that haven't been changed in a quarter century following calls for better categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering.

A U.S. House committee has approved legislation that would put voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on federal surveys.

Sexual orientation and gender identity.

Accusations have flown for months over who's to blame for Ohio’s redistricting protracted redistricting predicament.

Around 1 in 20 residents in Arkansas and Tennessee were missed during the 2020 census, and four other U.S. states had significant undercounts of their populations which could shortchange them of federal funding in the current decade.

Over the past three decades, birthrates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s.

A new report by Pew Research Center says about 6 million adults in the United States identify as Afro Latino, a distinction with deep roots in colonial Latin America.

Hundreds of the urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, and it’s not because of anything they’ve done.

The coronavirus pandemic ushered in what may be the most rapid rise in homeschooling the U.S. has ever seen.

Campaigns for Congress are underway for this year’s elections, but lingering disagreements over the final shape of new voting districts have left some candidates — and would-be candidates — in limbo.

The first-ever publication of 1950 census records promises to solve some family mysteries for amateur genealogists and family historians.

Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.

Genealogists and historians can get a microscopic look at sweeping historical trends when individual records from the 1950 census are released this week.

In the first full year of the pandemic, the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago metro areas had the greatest population losses in the nation.

Policymakers and demographers have been asking whether it's time to rethink the census after results released last week that showed Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were undercounted in greater rates in 2020 than a decade ago.

New Census data shows that Duval County families have seen their incomes go up over the past decade, but despite the improvement, there are still economic disparities.

New data released by the Census Bureau shows the U.S. grew wealthier, better educated and poverty declined during the second half of the last decade.

More African Americans are moving to Jacksonville from larger cities, according to an Associated Press report on the 2020 census.

The largest African American growth in pure numbers over the past decade didn’t take place in traditional hubs of Black life such as Atlanta or Houston, but rather in smaller cities with lower profiles.

For decades, Black residents have been leaving some of the nation's largest cities while suburbs have seen Black population growth.

A new report shows Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were missed at higher rates than a decade ago during the 2020 U.S. census.

The U.S. Census Bureau will release reports Thursday that show how good of a job the agency believes it did in counting every U.S. resident during the 2020 census.

The new U.S. Census Bureau director says he is listening to the concerns of data users and policymakers, and the agency is making permanent community outreach efforts, in an effort to restore any trust that was lost following attempts by the Trump administration to politicize the nation’s head count.

When officials in Chester, Georgia, heard that the 2020 census had pegged their small town at 525 people, their jaws dropped.

The U.S. Census Bureau has begun accepting challenges from states, cities and tribal nations that want to contest the results of the 2020 census.

A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that parents shared more meals and spent more quality time together with their children at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic than they had in previous years.

U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the pandemic.

Jacksonville has added more than 100,000 people in the last 10 years. The latest Census told us that and now the city has to change its boundaries for city council and school board districts.

The Census Bureau is working to increase the public's confidence in the numbers it gathered during the 2020 census.

Ohio's final congressional map sprinted through the Legislature last week and was signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine over the weekend, all in less than five days.

Contrary to popular belief, there has been no great migration in the U.S. during the pandemic.

Some people might describe Hartville, Missouri, as being in the middle of nowhere, but the U.S. Census Bureau says it’s the closest town to the middle of the nation.

America is about to find out where its heart is.

The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director.

One of the two candidates In Boston’s historic mayor’s race has found herself questioned about her decision to identify as a person of color.

A statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau for the first time in 2020 to protect confidentiality has made people and occupied homes vanish, at least on paper, when they actually exist in the real world.

In the fight to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats need help from the few places where state lawmakers can make 2022 difficult for Republicans.

Researchers are worried about coronavirus-related disruptions to one of the U.S. Census Bureau’s most important surveys about how Americans live, saying a gap in the 2020 data will make it more difficult to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and measure year-to-year changes.

Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census.

Designed more than a century ago, the Rio Grande Valley’s canal system in South Texas was built to irrigate the booming agricultural industry that once dominated the local economy.

Texas lawmakers are on the brink of finishing redrawn U.S. House maps that would shore up their eroding dominance as voters peel away from the GOP in the state’s booming suburbs.

The number of people in Puerto Rico who identified as “white” in the most recent census plummeted almost 80%, sparking a conversation of identity on an island breaking away from a past where race was not tracked and seldom debated in public.

When the U.S. government issues the September jobs report on Friday, the spotlight will fall not only on how many people were hired last month.

Soaring temperatures fueled by climate change are making it harder to live in some of the nation's fastest-growing cities, such as Phoenix and Las Vegas.

The share of single people in the U.S. has grown over the past three decades.

U.S. Census Bureau officials are pondering whether to produce less granular data in the next release of 2020 census data, dealing with housing and family relationships.

While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have turned a corner last March as births started rebounding.

Massive government relief passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic moved millions of Americans out of poverty last year, even as the official poverty rate increased slightly.

A task force of outside experts has found no evidence of political interference in the 2020 census numbers used for divvying up congressional seats among the U.S. states.

Republicans in America’s largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan “Keep Texas Red,” a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics.

Republicans in America’s largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan “Keep Texas Red,” a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics.

The fastest-growing county in the U.S. is in the oil fields of North Dakota.

A program offering cash incentives for out-of-state workers to move to West Virginia has welcomed its first round of new residents, and more people can now apply.

Older adults who are childless in the U.S. are more likely to be college educated, working and white than those with children.

A House oversight committee and the Commerce Department have reached an understanding that could resolve a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration ignored subpoenas for records on 2020 census operations.

New population data from the 2020 census is being used by citizens commissions in some states to try to influence the way voting districts are redrawn for the U.S. House and state legislatures.

The results of the 2020 headcount have many Latino and Black communities concerned about whether the latest numbers are accurate.

The northern Colorado city of Greeley is in one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States.

Rural America lost more population in the latest census.

New census data shows declining populations in rural areas and some Rust Belt cities, which could make them targets during redistricting for the U.S. House.

Growth in the number of people who identified as multiracial on 2020 census responses soared over the last decade, rising from under 3% to more than 10% of the U.S. population.

No racial or ethnic group dominates for people under age 18 in the newly released 2020 census figures.

California's Asian population has grown by 25% in the past decade.

Newly released census data shows four of the nation’s 10 fastest-growing municipalities are suburbs of Texas’ big cities.

The Census Bureau has issued its long-awaited portrait of how the U.S. changed over the past decade.

The U.S. became more diverse and more urban over the past decade, and the non-Hispanic white population dropped for the first time on record.

The once-a-decade battle over redistricting is set to be a showdown over the suburbs.

The Census Bureau is due to release new data on the changing U.S. population.

An Associated Press analysis shows that Republicans have benefited from the biggest political advantage in decades because of potential gerrymandering in U.S. House districts and state legislative boundaries.

The U.S. Census Bureau says data from the 2020 census used for drawing congressional and legislative districts will be released next week.

By the end of the U.S. head count last year, the Census Bureau lacked data for residents in almost a fifth of the nation's occupied college dorms, nursing homes and prisons.

A Republican advocacy group is withdrawing its request for a court order seeking the immediate release of Census Bureau records.

A watchdog agency investigating the origins of a failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form was unable to question top Trump administration officials because they either refused to cooperate or set unacceptable interview terms.

A federal investigation has found that President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary misled Congress about why he sought to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Census Bureau has told a Senate committee that he'd bring transparency and independence to the nation’s largest statistical agency.

Some census takers worry that apartment renters were not fully tallied during last year's national headcount.