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Eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.

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A new census report shows 14 states were significantly miscounted, which might have cost red states 2-3 seats. A potential reasons: Trump's chaotic attempts to game the system.

Immigrants, people living in poverty and non-English speakers were among the most likely to be missed, yet the crucial count received lackluster promotion by Texas state government.

The states were not counted equally well for population totals used to determine their share of political representation and federal funding for the next 10 years, a new Census Bureau report shows.

Texas’ homeowner vacancy rate matched the nationwide rate, but the Lone Star State had one of the highest rental vacancy rates in the nation.

Houston, Las Vegas and Phoenix were among the top 10 moving destinations for Americans in 2021, according to truck rental company Penske's annual report.

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

The next release of detailed data about U.S. residents from the 2020 census will be postponed until next year because the U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that it needs more time to crunch the numbers, including implementing a controversial method used to protect participants' identities. “The truth of the matter is we need this data,” said Eric Guthrie, a senior demographer in the Minnesota State Demographic Center. Other rounds of data on household relationships will be made public later in 2023, according to the Census Bureau.

Jennifer Chau was astonished last month when the U.S. Census Bureau's report card on how accurately it counted the U.S. population in 2020 showed that Asian people were overcounted by the highest rate of any race or ethnic group. The director of an Asian American advocacy group thought thousands of people would be missed — outreach activities had been scratched by the coronavirus pandemic, and she and her staff feared widespread language barriers and wariness of sharing information with the government could hinder participation. “I’m honestly shocked,” said Chau, director of the Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander For Equity Coalition.

New Census Bureau data released on Thursday shows that 2021 was the slowest year of...

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 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.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Small Business Pulse Survey, which collected...

Revise census questions now, and protect the decennial count from another president like Donald Trump.

A new report shows Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were missed at higher rates than a decade ago.

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.

According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report, the gender-based wage gap in the United...

According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report, the gender-based wage gap in the United...

"Do not do this on your own," said Adam Markowitz, an enrolled agent and vice president at Howard L Markowitz PA, CPA in Leesburg, Florida.

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.

A successful entrepreneur needs dedication and should be "armed with information," according to Zuleyka Strasner, founder and CEO of Zero Grocery.

On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau released data showing Texas as the top exporting...

Under federal law, the U.S. government must restrict access to people's records for the once-a-decade tally until 72 years after a count's Census Day. The exact origins of that time span are murky.

"We're seeing the disparity right at the beginning of a woman's career."

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.

You may be able to collect Social Security benefits based on your ex-spouse's work record. But you have to reach a key anniversary date before you're eligible.

While the Census Bureau's set to have its first director who's Latinx, an NPR analysis finds people of color are underrepresented in the top rank of civil servants at the country's main data producer.

People travel by train and plane ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 24, 2021. AAA predicts that more Americans will travel this holiday compared to Thanksgiving 2020.

North Michigan Ave. is packed with spectators as the BMO Harris Bank Magnificent Mile Lights Festival Parade returns for 2021 and celebrates its 30th year.

Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum is spread across many acres of the arboretum through Jan. 2, 2021.

A man is suspected of plowing his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha killing at least five people and injuring 48.

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.

If you are a resident in Fort Bend or Montgomery County and have noticed a rise in new housing units popping up in your area, you are not just imagining things.

America is about to find out where its heart is.

The Trump administration directed many federal agencies to stop collecting payroll taxes last year. The Census Bureau is now trying to get former temporary workers to pay what they owe.

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

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.

The three-bedroom colonial-style house where Jessica Stephenson has lived in Milwaukee for the last six years bustles with activity on any given weekday, filled with the chattering of children in the day care center she runs out of her home. The U.S. Census Bureau says no one lives there. “They should come and see it for themselves,” Stephenson said.

Chicago weather cooperates with blue sky and temperatures in the 50's for trick or treating and Halloween celebration events in Chicago.

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.

A final round of door knocking for a follow-up survey is now set to last until early 2022, raising concerns about whether the bureau can determine which groups were undercounted in the 2020 census.

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.

The supplemental poverty measure, which includes government assistance to low-income individuals, declined to 9.1% in 2020 from 11.8% in 2019.

People rally near Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's home to demand an option for remote learning as the COVID-19 pandemic persists.

Federal investigators have launched an inquiry into Ald. Jim Gardiner’s conduct in office, including whether he retaliated against constituents for political purposes, sources told the Tribune.

The QAnon adherent who was a cause célèbre for ivermectin died in the intensive care unit of AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center early Monday.

Muralist Timm Etters painted hundreds of murals in local schools over the last three decades.

There are understandable concerns from homebuyers about inventory and sky-high prices, but there might have been recent some encouraging news to help alleviate those worries.

Chicagoans enjoy time away from work and pleasant weather during the Labor Day Weekend.

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.

Chicago Public Schools is preparing for hundreds of thousands of students to head back to classrooms Monday — a complete resumption of in-person learning since the pandemic began.

The Census Bureau says Black parents had the highest spike of homeschooling during the pandemic, going from 3% in the spring to 16% in the fall.

The Census Bureau says Black parents had the highest spike of homeschooling during the pandemic, going from 3% in the spring to 16% in the fall.

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.

The Census Bureau found that July's payment coincided with a 3% drop in households with children experiencing food insufficiency.

Find our how much the population has changed near you using the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Growing numbers of people in the U.S. are reporting on census forms that they identify with more than one racial group. But they're often hidden in breakdowns of the country's demographics.

The fastest-growing U.S. metro area is a Florida retirement community, and other 2020 Census highlights

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

The state’s Hispanic population is now nearly as large as the non-Hispanic white population, with Texas gaining nearly 11 Hispanic residents for every additional white resident since 2010. Those trends set up a pitched battle for political control when state lawmakers redraw legislative districts.

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

Newly released census data shows that the United States has become more diverse over the last decade, while the white population is on the decline.

LGBTQ Americans in a new Census survey reported higher rates of food and economic insecurity, indicating the community is experiencing a particularly heavy financial toll from the pandemic.

The gap between Texas’ Hispanic population and non-Hispanic white alone population is shrinking.

Census Bureau statisticians and outside experts are trying to unravel a mystery: Why did people leave so many questions unanswered in the 2020 census.

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

Thirty-seven percent of Asian American households reported not having enough to eat amid the COVID-19 pandemic because they were “afraid” or “did not want” to go out to buy food, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Key details: The figure comes from the agency’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS), which studies how the coronavirus is impacting U.S. households from a social and economic perspective. Since April 2020, all race groups reported being more likely to experience food insufficiency due to COVID-19.

After a year of frenzied buying and price gains in the double digits, newly built homes are now out of reach for much of the demand that remains in the market.

Robert Santos, one of the country's leading statisticians, could become the first person of color to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as a Senate-confirmed director.

It’s hard to justify such exorbitant increases, writes The State Editorial Board. These are government jobs, publicly-funded jobs. The men and women earning the statewide median salary of $53,199 are paying these salaries.

The U.S. Census Bureau says that it’s on schedule to deliver the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts by mid-August.

The U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that it's on schedule to deliver the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts by mid-August after federal judges rejected a challenge that could have delayed the data release even further. The panel of three federal judges on Tuesday denied the state of Alabama’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Census Bureau from using a statistical method aimed at keeping people’s data private in the redistricting numbers. The decision in federal court in Opelika, Alabama, allows the Census Bureau, for now, to proceed toward its goal of releasing the redistricting data by Aug. 16.

A lower court has denied Alabama's request to force the Census Bureau to move up the release of new redistricting data and stop plans for a different way of keeping people's information confidential.

Fifteen Republican governors have sent a letter to the U.S. Commerce Secretary, urging that the U.S. Census bureau release redistricting data as soon as possible.

The 2020 census is expected to cost $14.2 billion, well below a previous estimate of $15.6 billion.

Hold onto your calculators, statisticians.

A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau's use of a controversial privacy method on the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts.

The U.S. Census Bureau had a last-resort solution for getting information on households that failed to respond to the once-a-decade head count.

Some researchers are up in arms about a U.S. Census Bureau proposal to add privacy protections by manipulating numbers in the data most widely used for economic and demographic research.

The state of Ohio and the U.S. Census Bureau have asked a judge to place on hold their court fight over when data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts will be released.

West Virginia has seen a higher percentage of residents depart than any other state in the past decade.

U.S. Census Bureau officials have recapped the challenges of executing the nation’s head count.

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 numbers used for drawing political districts.

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.

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 just under 331.5 million.

Texas will continue to see its political clout grow as it gains two additional congressional seats following the 2020 census, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday.

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

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 census that will be used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts.

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 before the end of the month.

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 voting rights enforcement more difficult.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Rose in Dayton, Ohio, rejected the state’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have forced the Census Bureau to release the redistricting data by March 31. Ohio filed its lawsuit last month after the Census Bureau said the redistricting data wouldn’t be available until September, months after the redistricting deadlines for many states. Posing the first challenge to the bureau's revised deadline on redistricting data, the lawsuit said the delay will undermine Ohio’s process of redrawing districts. The redistricting data includes counts of population by race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing occupancy status at geographic levels as small as neighborhoods. AdThe delay in releasing the redistricting data has sent states scrambling to come up with alternative plans.

The rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of the pandemic last spring to the start of the new school year last September, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report released this week. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)ORLANDO, Fla. – The rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of the pandemic last spring to the start of the new school year last September, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report released this week. Last spring, about 5.4% of all U.S. households with school-aged children were homeschooling them, but that figure rose to 11% by last fall, according to the bureau's Household Pulse Survey. Black households saw the largest jump in rates of homeschooling, going from 3.3% in the spring to 16.1% in the fall. Even Massachusetts, which has some of the nation's best public schools, went from 1.5% of households to 12.1% of households with school-aged children homeschooling.

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. At a hearing of the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, Republican lawmakers told acting Census Bureau director Ron Jarmin that the delay was upending their states' redistricting plans. The state of Alabama also has sued the Census Bureau in an effort to force it to release the redistricting data early. “That meant some of the work we would have started for the redistricting data was set aside for later. The acting Census Bureau director also said the cost of executing the 2020 census would be under its $15.6 billion budget.

The Census Bureau recently announced that the deadline for releasing the redistricting data would be pushed back from the end of March, the date required by law, to the end of September because of delays caused by the pandemic. The states of Ohio and Alabama promptly sued the statistical agency, saying the delay would undermine their ability to redraw districts. The Alabama lawsuit also challenged a new method being used by the Census Bureau for the first time for protecting participants’ privacy, which the state argues produces faulty numbers. AdThe availability of the redistricting data in the outdated format in August was first disclosed last week in a statement by a Census Bureau official in the Ohio lawsuit. The data ready in the outdated format in August will need to be imported into a database.

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)A coalition of cities, counties and civil rights groups sued the U.S. Census Bureau last year to stop it from ending the 2020 census early out of fear a premature finish would undercount minority communities. The census data are used not only to determine congressional seats and Electoral College votes but also the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year. The state of Alabama also has sued the Census Bureau in an effort to get it to release the redistricting data by March 31. Alabama's lawsuit also takes aim at a new method the Census Bureau is using to protect the privacy of participants in the 2020 census, arguing that it produces faulty numbers.