The Latest Breaking News from the Census Bureau

Gay male couples tend to gravitate toward big cities, while lesbian couples prefer more pastoral smaller cities or towns

Turned off by fumbling public schools and curriculum wars, families teach their own kids.

Statisticians and demographers are sounding the alarm about threats to official data gathering in the U.S. They warn that funding for the federal statistical agencies is inadequate and measures in a House appropriations bill could undermine what Americans know about themselves

The Office of Inspector General says the Census Bureau didn’t adequately monitor contract orders worth hundreds of millions of dollars dealing with advertising to promote participation in the 2020 census

The federal government recently reclassified race and ethnicity groups in an effort to better capture the diversity of the United States, but some groups feel the changes are still missing the mark

Five of the seven states widely expected to be political battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election have populations very much like that of the U.S. overall, in a range of demographic and socioeconomic measures.

The country recorded less than 3.6 million births last year, breaking two-year a growing trend that began after the pandemic

The U.S. Census Bureau is considering adding questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to its American Community Survey. The proposed question...

The Census Bureau estimates there will be 1.2 million more deaths than births in the year 2100.