Census Bureau: 70% of voters cast ballots early or by mailThe 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.
A look at what's next in the release of 2020 census dataThere 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 says population grew in 2020 after report of declineChina's government says its population grew last year.
House seat numbers can't be released before next weekThe numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets can’t be released before next Monday.
Biden picks first person of color to head Census fulltimePresident 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...
16 states back Alabama's challenge to Census privacy toolSixteen 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...
EXPLAINER: What the release of 2020 census numbers meansAfter 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 Raimondo defends census privacy methodCommerce 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.
Groups: Census privacy tool could hurt voting rights goalsA 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...
Lawsuits over execution of 2020 census near conclusionsTwo 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...
Less than half of Americans are members of houses of worshipMembership at churches and other houses of worship is at its lowest levels since the late 1930s, according to a new report from Gallup.
Census data delay scrambles plans for state redistrictingA delay in census data is scrambling plans in some states to redraw districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures.
Federal judge nixes Ohio's push for early redistricting dataA 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...
Homeschooling doubled from pandemic’s start to last fallA 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 ...
Lawmakers frustrated over delay in Census redistricting dataRepublican senators are expressing frustration that data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts won’t be available until August at the earliest.
Redistricting data may be ready a month early, in old formatStates 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...
Cities, groups aim to stop Ohio's push for early census dataA 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 sues to stop redistricting delay, privacy initiativeAlabama is the second state to sue the U.S. Census Bureau to speed up the redistricting process.
Bye, Bismarck: 144 cities could lose status as metro areasThere may be fewer metro areas in the U.S. in the near future.
Census delay helps GOP in one statehouse, Dems in another The Census Bureau’s missed deadlines could spell bad news for Democrats in Virginia and Republicans in New Jersey in legislative elections this year.
US House data not ready until April, states' data after JulyThe U.S. Census Bureau is aiming to deliver the long-delayed numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by the end of April.
Citizenship data is latest rollback of Trump census effortsThe U.S. Census Bureau is suspending efforts to create neighborhood-level statistics on the citizenship and age of residents, using 2020 census data.
Time, transparency needed as Biden inherits frazzled censusThe 2020 census has been battered by criticism that it was politicized by the administration of former President Donald Trump.
Biden's first act: Orders on pandemic, climate, immigration In his first official acts as president, Joe Biden is signing executive orders on a broad range of issues, from the coronavirus pandemic to climate change and immigration...
Census Bureau director to resign amid criticism over dataU.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham is planning to resign with the change in presidential administrations.
Census numbers won't be released before change in powerGovernment attorneys and municipalities fighting over the 2020 census have asked a judge to put their court case on hold.
Census decision deals blow to Trump efforts on House seatsPresident Donald Trump’s effort to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in the process for divvying up congressional seats has been dealt another blow.
Watchdog raises concerns about Census Bureau's IT securityA watchdog agency for the U.S. Census Bureau says that proper information-technology security safeguards weren’t in place leading up to the start of the 2020 census.
Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census dataThe Trump administration has missed a deadline for giving Congress numbers used for dividing up congressional seats among the states, as the U.S. Census Bureau works towa...
Attorney: Congressional seat data not ready until FebruaryA Trump administration attorney says the numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets won’t be ready until February.
Census: Early analysis shows falsifying data was rare The U.S. Census Bureau says less than a half percent of census takers interviewing households for the 2020 head count may have falsified their work, suggesting it was few...
Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump planThe Census Bureau says it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.
With deadline looming, group wants more census documentsThe Census Bureau is days away from likely missing a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.
Virus, other problems threaten to throw off homeless censusWhen census takers tried to count the nation's homeless population, they ran into many problems that could threaten the accuracy of the effort.
US population growth smallest in at least 120 yearsThe U.S. population grew by the smallest rate in at least 120 years from 2019 to 2020.