The Latest Breaking News from Census Bureau

The Census Bureau admitted last week that it had screwed up Illinois’ decennial headcount, and the state actually grew by about 250,000 people.

A new report from the US Census Bureau found that 14 states were significantly miscounted in the 2020 Census, including six by 4 percentage points or more

Census miscounts in Texas and Florida may have been big enough to cost those states a congressional seat, according to census data.

Versions of the conspiracy theory have existed for decades or even centuries – but the data doesn’t support the claims, writes Andrew Buncombe

The U.S. Census Bureau has a backlog of cases involving workers who were flagged for problems in their background checks

U.S. Bureau officials say they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnic questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category on the 2030 census questionnaire

Over the past three decades, birthrates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s

Hundreds of the urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, and it’s not because of anything they’ve done

Using recent metro-area data from the U.S. Census Bureau and state-level data from the Federation of State Tax Administrators, NerdWallet’s list of the 10 best cities for freelancers includes places where housing and income taxes tended to be relatively more affordable, freelancer culture was vibrant and there were signs of…