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Byline: Alfred Lubrano Sep. 12Nearly 10% of Pennsylvanians believe they live in the Midwest. They are 100% wrong. Despite this disorienting finding from Middle West Review and Emerson College Polling, [...]

Byline: Joshua Irvine Aug. 3GRAND FORKS Ever feel like this town isn't getting due? Like Grand Forks is being overlooked, or underestimated? Particularly from, say, the standpoint of federally aggregated [...]

Byline: Abbey Soukup Colorado Springs has been selected to participate in the 2026 Census Test the first of two anticipated on-the-ground tests to be conducted in preparation for the 2030 [...]

Byline: Keith Lawrence In the races for mayor and city commissioner this year, here's something that needs to be discussed. After years of slow population growth, Owensboro has apparently started [...]

Byline: Matthew Voigt Mar. 19GRAND FORKS According to the latest estimates from the United States Census Bureau, the Grand Forks Metropolitan stayed roughly the same between 2022 and 2023. The [...]

Byline: Christopher Burns Jun. 22Maine still has the oldest population in the nation. That's the finding of the U.S. Census Bureau, which released new data Thursday showing declining birth rates [...]

Byline: Bayne Hughes Jun. 1Athens grew faster than every Alabama city but one between 2020 and 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, but Decatur had negligible growth as it [...]

Byline: Lori Valigra May 20The BDN is exploring Maine's housing crisis from every possible angle, from how it affects home prices, to what it means for Mainers across the state. [...]

Byline: Jessica Piper Apr. 19Workers from Massachusetts and other northeastern states may have accounted for most of Maine's population growth in the first year of the pandemic, according to new [...]

Byline: Edward D. Murphy Mar. 24All but two Maine counties had a net increase in population from April 2020 to July 2021, and the state's population overall grew by nearly [...]

Byline: Laurel Demkovich Dec. 25Idaho's population keeps growing at a faster clip than other states. The state has led the country in the rate of its population growth for the [...]

Byline: Riley Vetterkind Aug. 14The city of Madison proved to be one of the fastest growing large cities in the state during the past decade, adding 36,631 residents a 16% [...]

Byline: Davis Carbaugh Aug. 14UNION COUNTY The Census Bureau released the 2020 census on Thursday, Aug. 12, revealing that Union County grew in population by 1.7%. The population expanded from [...]

Aug. 14The population of Oxford has outpaced Anniston's, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau, making it the largest municipality in Calhoun County. Totals from the [...]

Byline: Bayne Hughes Aug. 13Decatur and Athens have grown along with most of north Alabama since 2010, but their mayors said census data released Thursday undercounted the two cities' population [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond and John Duchneskie Aug. 13Philadelphia gained roughly 77,800 residents between 2010 and 2020, growing the city's population to more than 1.6 million, according to the first local [...]

Byline: Riley Vetterkind Aug. 13Dane County added 73,431 people over the past decade, a 15% increase, making it the fastest-growing county in the state, according to data released by the [...]

Byline: Riley Vetterkind Aug. 13Dane County added 73,431 people over the past decade, a 15% increase, making it the fastest-growing county in the state, according to data released by the [...]

Byline: Caitlin Andrews Aug. 12Maine remained the whitest state in the U.S. in 2020, but the nonwhite population grew by 75 percent and every county is more diverse than it [...]

Byline: Riley Vetterkind Aug. 12Dane County, Wisconsin's Democratic stronghold, is the state's fastest growing, adding 73,431 people over the past decade for a population of 561,504, a 15% increase, according [...]

Byline: David C.L. Bauer Jul. 9Illinois is now the first state in the nation to require Asian American history be taught in public schools. Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed [...]

Jun. 28Gov. Jay Inslee's extension of a statewide eviction moratorium expands an overly broad policy and ignores legislation passed this year to balance the needs of renters and landlords. Inslee [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond Jan. 30A shortage of paper 2020 Census questionnaires hurt response rates in Philadelphia, where a large portion of residents don't have reliable internet access, and likely means [...]

Byline: David C.L. Bauer Dec. 24Illinois is shrinking. Again. Or perhaps, still. For the seventh year in a row, the state's population has decreased, according to estimates released Tuesday by [...]

Byline: Kate Snyder Sept. 30-- Sep. 30--Confusion over the true final day for completing the 2020 Census spread to the city of Toledo Wednesday. The city sent out an emergency [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond Sept. 26-- Sep. 26--City officials would welcome an additional month to make sure Philadelphians are counted in the 2020 Census, but they're not letting a federal judge's [...]

Byline: Olivia Neeley Sept. 24-- Sep. 24--Time is running out to get counted for the 2020 census. Wilson County officials say it's vital that residents make themselves and their households [...]

Byline: Garrett Stell Sept. 23-- Sep. 23--With one week left to complete the 2020 census, the response rate of Caldwell County residents is below what it was in 2010, and [...]

Byline: Laura Lane Sept. 18-- Sep. 18--Thousands of U.S. Census Bureau workers are out knocking on doors in Indiana, doing their part to make sure everyone gets counted during the [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond Aug. 28-- Aug. 28--The country's once-a-decade population count has been overshadowed and hindered by a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. Now, tens of millions of households that haven't responded to [...]

Byline: Dick Mason Aug. 25-- Aug. 25--UNION COUNTY -- The deadline for completing and submitting 2020 United States Census forms is fast approaching, and this has Paul Anderes, chairman of [...]

Byline: Patty Hastings Aug. 16-- Aug. 16--Last week, census workers began knocking on the doors of households that have not responded to the 2020 census. Even though Washington has the [...]

Byline: Eric Lindquist Aug. 11-- Aug. 11--EAU CLAIRE -- Masked men and women are about to start knocking on Chippewa Valley doors and asking questions. But never fear because the [...]

Byline: Megan Tomasic Aug. 05-- Aug. 5--The Better Business Bureau of Western Pennsylvania issued a warning regarding potential phishing scams related to the census. The census, which determines how federal [...]

Byline: Erica Moser Aug. 04-- Aug. 4--While the COVID-19 pandemic pushed back the start date of enumerators knocking on the doors of people in southeastern Connecticut who haven't responded to [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond July 31-- Jul. 31--On Saturday, a caravan of cars and bikes will travel through North and West Philadelphia -- specifically Strawberry Mansion, Mantua, and Belmont -- playing [...]

Byline: Olivia Neeley July 23-- Jul. 23--FOOD DISTRIBUTION PLANNED The N.C. Counts Coalition and community partners including the U.S. Census Bureau will sponsor a 'Truck to Trunk' food distribution at [...]

Byline: Patty Hastings July 14-- Jul. 14--The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the recalculating and rescheduling of countless events -- perhaps none bigger than the 2020 census. While the decennial [...]

Byline: Eric Lindquist June 17-- Jun. 17--Eau Claire County residents are among the best in the nation so far at ensuring they are counted in the 2020 census. Despite the [...]

Byline: Darren Iozia May 29-- May 29--Imagine, if you will, that taking the census every 10 years is like drawing a blueprint of how money is spent from the federal [...]

May 21-- May 21--As of the beginning of this week, just under half of Maine residents had completed their U.S. Census form. That's one of the lowest response rates in [...]

Byline: Marian Accardi May 14-- May 14--Morgan and Lawrence County residents have completed the 2020 census at rates better than the state and nation, but local leaders want an even [...]

Byline: Eric Lindquist March 31-- Mar. 31--Census Day is this Wednesday. That is the official date on which the government must try to get the most accurate count possible of [...]

Byline: Erica Moser March 31-- Mar. 31--While it may be hard for some people to focus on news that isn't about the coronavirus, to Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, the COVID-19 [...]

March 25-- Mar. 25--The coronavirus pandemic presents good and bad news for the U.S. Census. The good news is that with many people staying at home, filling out the census [...]

Byline: Garrett Stell March 23-- Mar. 23--The U.S. Census Bureau has announced delays of about two weeks for most of its field operations for the 2020 census, including most of [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond March 21-- Mar. 21--The U.S. Census Bureau announced Friday that it is pushing back its deadline for collecting responses to the 2020 Census, the decennial population count [...]

Byline: Michaelle Bond March 20-- Mar. 20--The U.S. Census Bureau is suspending its 2020 Census field operations and some training for at least two weeks as the number of cases [...]

Byline: Bill O?Boyle March 19-- Mar. 19--HARRISBURG -- As efforts to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus continue in Pennsylvania and across the country, Gov. Tom Wolf is urging [...]

Byline: Taylor Cooper March 16-- Mar. 16--The U.S. Census Bureau started mailing out questionnaires to certain households this week, but anyone can fill out the form online whenever they choose. [...]