At FiveThirtyEight, we use census data all the time to track demographic and social trends, from the aging of the U.S. population to the decline in marriage and shifts in immigration patterns. But the ...

The Census Bureau plans to use U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations during field tests next year for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding ...

As federal agencies brace for the Trump administration's next round of slashing the U.S. government, recent staff departures are already raising concerns about whether the Census Bureau can continue ...

While the Census Bureau is best known for conducting the decennial count of every resident in the U.S., the agency continues to operate in years that don’t end in “0,” performing surveys that measure ...

Baby Boomers – adults born between 1946 and 1964 – will soon reach a milestone, when the oldest members of this generation turn 80.

Motio Research's initial estimate of U.S. median household income for November 2025 is $87,160. Read more here.

Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit argue the 2020 Census wrongly overcounted the population in a partisan way: “When the federal ...

An entrepreneur in California is weighing whether to open a new restaurant. A national chain headquartered in Illinois is making regional hiring plans. And a big-box store in Colorado is deciding how ...

San Diego County has seen its share of young residents, particularly children under the age of 5, declining over the past two ...

The next major U.S. national census is in 2030, but this year, the Census Bureau will conduct field tests to try to come up ...

Detroit — The city of Detroit filed another federal lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Census Bureau and Commerce Department, accusing officials of undercounting residents, particularly Black and ...

For the first time since 1950, the U.S. Census Bureau is planning to ask everyone living in the United States whether they are citizens when it conducts its next decennial census in 2020. Anticipating ...