With the U.S. Census online form set to go live starting March 12, Americans will soon get the once-in-a-decade opportunity to stand up and be counted. But while many of the questions on the Census ...

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 ...

No census in the U.S. has been perfect. Exactly how imperfect the national head count was in 2020 may start to be revealed in a report the Census Bureau is set to release Thursday. While the 2020 ...

A key change is paperless data-recording, the census itself not limited to counting tigers but designed to generate a ...

Editor's note: This story originally identified the 2020 census questionnaires for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands as Census Bureau ...

Census Day has come and gone, but if you haven't filled out your online form yet, you still have time before the Census Bureau comes to you. We'll tell you what to do. Clifford led How To coverage. He ...

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the better part of the president’s second term radically reshaping the federal government. But in recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on ...

The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.

The 2020 Census undercounted the Black, Latino and indigenous populations, even more so than in the last decade's Census. The undercount comes after delays of data collection caused by COVID-19 and an ...

President Trump on Thursday said he had instructed the Department of Commerce to "immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate" census that would exclude undocumented immigrants. But the census ...

President Trump’s call to exclude those without legal status from the census could reshape the country’s congressional districts. But opponents argue that it would violate the 14th Amendment’s ...

The 2027 Census will, for the first time since Independence, collect caste data electronically during the population ...