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Byline: Rachel Siegel The cost of rent and utilities in 2023 rose faster than home values for the first time in a decade, the latest sign that a distorted housing [...]

Byline: Philip Bump The 2020 presidential election coincided with the Census Bureau's decennial tally of the number of people living in the United States. You know this; every year ending [...]

Byline: Editorial Board The long-suffering city of Detroit got some recent good news when a Census Bureau revision showed the city's population increased between July 2022 and July 2023, to [...]

Byline: Editorial Board With former president Donald Trump describing an immigrant invasion -- and even Democrats acknowledging that the U.S. border is insecure -- it is easy to worry about [...]

Byline: Joe Heim CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly said the number of volunteers in the United States dropped about 7 percent between September 2020 and September 2021, [...]

Byline: Andrew Van Dam Forget about Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon': We're pretty sure the most anticipated debut related to Native Americans this year is a much-delayed and [...]

Byline: Catherine Rampell Five million more American kids fell into poverty last year. Or maybe it's more accurate to say they were pushed. The child poverty rate more than doubled [...]

Byline: Philip Bump A news release from the Census Bureau published on Thursday morning summarized three-quarters of a century of American history succinctly. It was titled, 'America Is Getting Older.' [...]

Byline: Philip Bump When the Census Bureau released data earlier this month on the demographics of the electorate in last year's midterms, it contained a bit of information that ran [...]

Byline: Scott Clement; Lenny Bronner Turnout in last year's midterm elections fell from a century-high point of 50 percent in 2018 to 46.6 percent in 2022, and census data released [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Rural America is dying faster than it is producing new children. Census Bureau data released Thursday shows that, between 2021 and 2022, nearly 645,000 residents of rural [...]

Byline: Silvia Foster-Frau For the past four decades, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos has checked 'Some Other Race' on his census form. Underneath it, he would write-in 'mestizo' to [...]

Byline: Philip Bump The Census Bureau sits at the same uncomfortable nexus as a lot of data- or science-based government agencies: committed to collecting data on the country's population with [...]

Byline: Philip Bump I was doing what everyone does last week, meandering around the Census Bureau website checking out the various data sets it makes available to the general public. [...]

Byline: Bryan Pietsch The San Francisco Bay area has long been known as the home of Big Tech -- and the extreme wealth the industry has created. But during the [...]

Byline: Karen Sandstrom The U.S. census has always seemed to me a bit like the Bible: an honorable effort to relay powerfully influential information, yet destined never to be 100 [...]

Byline: Philip Bump For more than a fifth of the country's existence, the right to obtain an abortion was established by the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Its [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour Many large U.S. cities lost population during the first year of the pandemic, some at nearly unprecedented rates, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau. [...]

Byline: Michael E. Ruane On April 1, 1950, an army of 140,000 census enumerators, equipped with fountain pens and government forms, started fanning out across the country to paint a [...]

Byline: Henry Olsen It should come as no surprise that hundreds of thousands of Americans fled large cities last year during the pandemic. But there's another aspect to that trend [...]

Byline: Editorial Board The Trump administration might have failed in its effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from the U.S. Census. But it still managed to get exactly what it wanted: [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Among the many scandals and near-scandals of the Trump administration, perhaps none included as much stick-to-itiveness as its effort to get census data on undocumented immigrants to [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Every 10 years, the Census Bureau conducts a national tally of the population of the United States. Then, a few months later, it releases a particularly interesting [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour The U.S. Census Bureau announced Wednesday the first-ever delay in the release of its American Community Survey five-year data, citing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]

Byline: Dalia Azim Dalia Azim is a writer in Austin. Filling out the 2020 Census launched me into a bit of an identity crisis. Under the 'race or origin' question, [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour; Ted Mellnik For the first time in the history of the country's census-taking, the number of White people in the United States is widely expected to show [...]

Byline: Marissa J. Lang Ohio will get another chance to push the U.S. Census Bureau to release redistricting data earlier than the bureau had said was possible, thanks to a [...]

Byline: By OHIO Court allows push for early census data Ohio will get another chance to push the U.S. Census Bureau to release redistricting data earlier than the bureau had [...]

Byline: Philip Bump In 2020, a bit over 8 percent of the country was age 65 or older. By 2060, the Census Bureau estimates, nearly 12 percent will be. In [...]

Byline: Philip Bump The Census Bureau's announcement on Monday that only 13 states would gain or lose House seats after the 2020 tally of the country's population came as a [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn The H Street corridor got a streetcar. The Navy Yard got a Whole Foods. Southwest Washington got the Wharf, transforming a once-dowdy waterfront into a playground for [...]

Byline: Mike Schneider and Nicholas Riccardi|AP WASHINGTON -- U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said Monday, as Americans continued their [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the 2020 census will include income data. The decennial census does not ask about income. This story has [...]

Byline: Brittany Renee Mayes A federal judge Thursday approved a settlement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Bureau, and the National Urban League and a coalition of [...]

Byline: Brittany Renee Mayes CENSUS BUREAU Settlement reached with civic groups A federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Bureau, and [...]

Byline: Brittany Renee Mayes Census Bureau officials said that the agency hopes to deliver state population totals to the commerce secretary by April 30, the original date the bureau set [...]

Byline: Catherine Rampell President-elect Joe Biden recently warned that a 'long, hard winter' is coming. In truth, it's already here, based on a flurry of recent reports measuring economic hardship. [...]

Byline: Robert L. Santos Robert L. Santos is vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute and president-elect of the American Statistical Association. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments [...]

American children are out of school, out of food and increasingly getting chucked off their health insurance. Yet somehow, they seem to be an afterthought in this election. Even before [...]

Byline: Emily Davies It had been six months since her last volunteer shift educating D.C. residents on the importance of filling out the 2020 Census and Arnesia Davis had yet [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday night announced a 'target date' of Oct. 5 to finish the 2020 Census count, just days after a federal judge blocked [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour A California judge late Thursday blocked the Trump administration from stopping the 2020 census count next week, saying it should continue until October 31, the date the [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn or expedite consideration of a lower court's decision barring the government from excluding undocumented immigrants when [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour The 2020 Census has been challenging to conduct amid -coronavirus-related delays and legal and legislative battles. But as the count enters its final weeks of a truncated [...]

Byline: Amy Goldstein;Rachel Siegel Health insurance became slightly more scarce in the United States last year, even before the coronavirus pandemic arrived and stole the jobs and health benefits of [...]

Byline: Katherine K. Wallman;Nancy A. Potok This post has been updated. Katherine K. Wallman was chief statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017 and is a past president [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour A federal court judge ordered the Trump administration to stop winding down census operations until a court hearing later this month over whether the 2020 count should [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour Critics of the Trump administration's sudden decision to move up the 2020 Census deadline have asked a court for a temporary restraining order after learning that the [...]

Byline: Fredrick Kunkle An inspector general has been asked to investigate whether President Trump or political appointees pressured the Census Bureau in its decision to wrap up door-knocking and other [...]

Byline: Letters to the Editor Regarding the Aug. 5 news article 'Census Bureau says count will end a month early': The Founding Fathers knew the value of population data. They [...]