U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

People travel by train and plane ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 24, 2021. AAA predicts that more Americans will travel this holiday compared to Thanksgiving 2020.

North Michigan Ave. is packed with spectators as the BMO Harris Bank Magnificent Mile Lights Festival Parade returns for 2021 and celebrates its 30th year.

Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum is spread across many acres of the arboretum through Jan. 2, 2021.

A man is suspected of plowing his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha killing at least five people and injuring 48.

Some people might describe Hartville, Missouri, as being in the middle of nowhere, but the U.S. Census Bureau says it’s the closest town to the middle of the nation.

America is about to find out where its heart is.

The Trump administration directed many federal agencies to stop collecting payroll taxes last year. The Census Bureau is now trying to get former temporary workers to pay what they owe.

U-M students voted in record-breaking numbers during the 2020 election despite the global pandemic.

The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director.

A statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau for the first time in 2020 to protect confidentiality has made people and occupied homes vanish, at least on paper, when they actually exist in the real world.

The three-bedroom colonial-style house where Jessica Stephenson has lived in Milwaukee for the last six years bustles with activity on any given weekday, filled with the chattering of children in the day care center she runs out of her home. The U.S. Census Bureau says no one lives there. “They should come and see it for themselves,” Stephenson said.

Chicago weather cooperates with blue sky and temperatures in the 50's for trick or treating and Halloween celebration events in Chicago.

Researchers are worried about coronavirus-related disruptions to one of the U.S. Census Bureau’s most important surveys about how Americans live, saying a gap in the 2020 data will make it more difficult to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and measure year-to-year changes.

Some experts believe the 2020 count could be the worst undercount in nearly 70 years.

A final round of door knocking for a follow-up survey is now set to last until early 2022, raising concerns about whether the bureau can determine which groups were undercounted in the 2020 census.

U.S. Census Bureau officials are pondering whether to produce less granular data in the next release of 2020 census data, dealing with housing and family relationships.

Public input is being sought this month as the Monroe County Apportionment Commission works on mapping county commissioner districts.

Data from the 2020 census showed Detroit is home to 639,111 residents, a 10.5% decrease since the previous count was taken a decade earlier. “A loss of roughly 30,000 people translates to $150 million in lost revenue for the city of Detroit,” Kovari said. Two decades earlier, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young successfully added thousands of residents to the count after challenging the 1990 census results. Once the fourth-largest American city, Detroit now ranks No 26. While census data shows Detroit lost 74,666 residents from 2010 to 2020, the city dropped nearly 237,500 people in the prior decade.

The supplemental poverty measure, which includes government assistance to low-income individuals, declined to 9.1% in 2020 from 11.8% in 2019.

Federal investigators have launched an inquiry into Ald. Jim Gardiner’s conduct in office, including whether he retaliated against constituents for political purposes, sources told the Tribune.

People rally near Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's home to demand an option for remote learning as the COVID-19 pandemic persists.

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Muralist Timm Etters painted hundreds of murals in local schools over the last three decades.

There are understandable concerns from homebuyers about inventory and sky-high prices, but there might have been recent some encouraging news to help alleviate those worries.

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - Cities and townships throughout Washtenaw County saw upticks in multiracial diversity in individuals over the last decade, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau update. However, more than 93% of Washtenaw County residents still identify as being one race. This resulted in multiracial diversity nearly doubling in the last decade to 6.6% of Washtenaw County’s population, or about 29,200 residents. The three areas with the largest percentage of multiracial representation are Ypsilanti Township, Scio Township and Superior Township at 9% each. However, the city has a lower percentage of white residents compared to the rest of the state’s percentage (74%).

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A House oversight committee and the Commerce Department have reached an understanding that could resolve a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration ignored subpoenas for records on 2020 census operations.

Chicago Public Schools is preparing for hundreds of thousands of students to head back to classrooms Monday — a complete resumption of in-person learning since the pandemic began.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — New data from the U.S. Census Bureau provides a glimpse into how Kent County’s demographic makeup changed between 2010 and 2020. To see how the demographic makeup of communities in Kent County have changed since 2010, see the charts below. Among Kent County’s municipalities, Byron Township saw the biggest increase, in raw numbers, in white residents. The number of people who identify as being two or more races grew in all of Kent County’s municipalities. The city of Grand Rapids, the county’s biggest city, saw the biggest increase.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Not only did Kent, Allegan and Ottawa counties post big population gains in the 2020 Census — they also stand out for having a lot of people under 18. Only two other counties in the state, Branch and St. Joseph, had such a high percentage of young people. The statistic was greeted with enthusiasm by Ottawa County Board of Commissioners Chairmen Roger Bergman. He attributed the high percentage of people under 18 to Ottawa being a “family oriented” place, and having a strong parks system. In many northern Michigan counties and the Upper Peninsula, the percentage is higher.

The Census Bureau says Black parents had the highest spike of homeschooling during the pandemic, going from 3% in the spring to 16% in the fall.

The Census Bureau says Black parents had the highest spike of homeschooling during the pandemic, going from 3% in the spring to 16% in the fall.

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows Muskegon County saw a 2.1% population increase during the last decade, adding more than 3,600 residents. This is an increase from 172,188 people counted in the 2010 census. North Muskegon was the third fastest growing community with an 8.1% population increase from 3,786 to 4,093 residents. See population change 2010-2020The population growth in Muskegon County is on par with the statewide average of a 2% increase of 193,691 overall residents. More on MLive:Michigan is more diverse, west side sees population surge and more takeaways from 2020 Census dataGrand Rapids falls just short of 200K residents in 2020 CensusKalamazoo County grew faster than state average, Census shows, with 4.5% increase

Growth in the number of people who identified as multiracial on 2020 census responses soared over the last decade, rising from under 3% to more than 10% of the U.S. population.

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- Kalamazoo County saw a nearly 5% increase in its population during the last decade, adding more than 11,000 residents. The county grew to 261,670 people in 2020, according to data released from the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday. Kalamazoo County’s population increase over the 10-year period was more than double Michigan’s overall population growth, detailed in newly released data from the 2020 U.S. Census. The state’s population grew by just under 2% in the last decade, an increase of 193,691 people since 2010. Search population data by county below.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Grand Rapids has fallen just shy of reaching a population goal of 200,000 residents, according to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday. Census estimates in summer 2018 first placed Grand Rapids at a population of just over that 200,000 residents mark. With a 2020 census count of 198,917 residents, the city saw a 5.78% population increase from the 188,040 residents counted in the 2010 census. The fastest-growing municipalities and townships in Kent County were largely those communities outside of the adjacent Grand Rapids suburbs, with exception to Kentwood and Grand Rapids Township. Courtland, Cascade, Gaines Grand Rapids and Vergennes townships, as well as Kentwood, all saw double-digit percentage increases under 20%.

See population change 2010-2020The release of detailed, once-in-a-decade population data has huge political and economic implications. The 2020 census recorded 10 million Michigan residents, a 2% increase in the last decade. White people declined in numbers for the first time on record in the overall U.S. population, according to the 2020 census data. Washtenaw County, home to Ann Arbor, grew by 8%, while Oakland County grew by 6% and Macomb County grew by 5%. As mentioned above, municipalities in West Michigan and Southeast Michigan grew the most.

Population data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers more evidence that Michigan’s population is shifting from rural areas to urban and suburban communities and from the east side to the west side. The state’s population grew by just under 2% in the last decade, an increase of 193,691 people since 2010. Population grew 15%, from 79,580 to 91,663Dearborn in Wayne County, gain of 11,823. Population dropped 27%, from 10,601 to 7,727. Population dropped 24%, from 11,776 to 8,977.

The Census Bureau found that July's payment coincided with a 3% drop in households with children experiencing food insufficiency.

Find our how much the population has changed near you using the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

New population data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows West Michigan counties grew the fastest during the last decade, while Upper Peninsula counties experienced the biggest loss in residents since 2010. The state’s population grew by just under 2% in the last decade, an increase of 193,691 people since 2010. Ottawa and Grand Traverse counties grew by double-digits -- 12% and 10%, respectively -- in the last decade. Below is a map showing the change in Michigan’s population between 2010 and 2020. Thursday’s release of 2020 Census redistricting data also provides a new snapshot of the racial and ethnic composition of the country.

Figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show some of Michigan’s largest percentage population losses over the past decade are in the state’s Upper Peninsula, while three of the four most populous counties in the Lower Peninsula gained people.

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No racial or ethnic group dominates for people under age 18 in the newly released 2020 census figures.

The Census Bureau has issued its long-awaited portrait of how the U.S. changed over the past decade.

The latest decennial count shows Ottawa, Grand Traverse and Kent counties were the three fastest-growing parts of Michigan in the last decade. Ottawa County is the seventh-largest county by population but outpaced the rest of the state in growth, swelling by 12% in the last 10 years. The 2020 Census county showed Grand Traverse County close behind. Kent County, located directly east of Ottawa County and home to Grand Rapids, was the third-fastest growing county in Michigan. Washtenaw County, home to Ann Arbor, grew by 8%, while Oakland County grew by 6% and Macomb County grew by 5%.

Newly released census data shows that the United States has become more diverse over the last decade, while the white population is on the decline.

LGBTQ Americans in a new Census survey reported higher rates of food and economic insecurity, indicating the community is experiencing a particularly heavy financial toll from the pandemic.

Figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau showed some of Michigan’s largest percentage population losses were in the state’s Upper Peninsula, while three of the state's four most populous counties gained people.

The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a news conference to discuss the release of the first local level results from the 2020 Census.

The U.S. Census Bureau says data from the 2020 census used for drawing congressional and legislative districts will be released next week.

Thirty-seven percent of Asian American households reported not having enough to eat amid the COVID-19 pandemic because they were “afraid” or “did not want” to go out to buy food, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Key details: The figure comes from the agency’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS), which studies how the coronavirus is impacting U.S. households from a social and economic perspective. Since April 2020, all race groups reported being more likely to experience food insufficiency due to COVID-19.

After a year of frenzied buying and price gains in the double digits, newly built homes are now out of reach for much of the demand that remains in the market.

Robert Santos, one of the country's leading statisticians, could become the first person of color to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as a Senate-confirmed director.

The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday denied a petition to grant relief to the state’s redistricting panel, who expects to adopt new congressional and legislative maps months later than allowed by the constitution.

It’s hard to justify such exorbitant increases, writes The State Editorial Board. These are government jobs, publicly-funded jobs. The men and women earning the statewide median salary of $53,199 are paying these salaries.

The U.S. Census Bureau says that it’s on schedule to deliver the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts by mid-August.

The U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that it's on schedule to deliver the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts by mid-August after federal judges rejected a challenge that could have delayed the data release even further. The panel of three federal judges on Tuesday denied the state of Alabama’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Census Bureau from using a statistical method aimed at keeping people’s data private in the redistricting numbers. The decision in federal court in Opelika, Alabama, allows the Census Bureau, for now, to proceed toward its goal of releasing the redistricting data by Aug. 16.

A lower court has denied Alabama's request to force the Census Bureau to move up the release of new redistricting data and stop plans for a different way of keeping people's information confidential.

But the bill didn’t exactly get Gov. Roy Cooper’s blessing.

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Fifteen Republican governors have sent a letter to the U.S. Commerce Secretary, urging that the U.S. Census bureau release redistricting data as soon as possible.

The 2020 census is expected to cost $14.2 billion, well below a previous estimate of $15.6 billion.

Hold onto your calculators, statisticians.

After three years of fierce debates, conflicting academic papers and a lawsuit, the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday announced guidelines for how a controversial statistical method will be applied to the numbers used for drawing congressional and legislative districts. The method is meant to protect the privacy of people who participated in the 2020 census, though critics have claimed it favors confidentiality at the expense of accurate numbers. The privacy method adds controlled “noise,” or intentional errors, to the data to obscure the identity of any given participant in the 2020 census while still providing statistically valid information.

A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau's use of a controversial privacy method on the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts.

The U.S. Census Bureau had a last-resort solution for getting information on households that failed to respond to the once-a-decade head count.

When U.S. Census Bureau workers couldn't find out any information about some households after repeatedly mailing them questionnaire reminders and sending census takers to knock on their doors, the statisticians turned to an obscure, last-resort statistical technique known as “imputation.” Less than 1% of households were counted using the technique during the 2020 census. Imputation involves using information about neighbors with similar characteristics to fill in head counts or demographic characteristics for households lacking data.

Some researchers are up in arms about a U.S. Census Bureau proposal to add privacy protections by manipulating numbers in the data most widely used for economic and demographic research.

First came the “noise” — small errors the U.S. Census Bureau decided to introduce into the 2020 census data to protect participants' privacy. Now the bureau is looking into “synthetic data,” manipulating the numbers widely used for economic and demographic research, to obscure the identities of people who provided information. Census Bureau statisticians disclosed at a virtual conference last week that over the next three years they will work toward developing a method to create “synthetic data" for files on individuals and homes that already are devoid of personalized information.

The state of Ohio and the U.S. Census Bureau have asked a judge to place on hold their court fight over when data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts will be released.

A new phase of census data releases started last month as the U.S. Census Bureau completed its process of counting the population of the country. The bureau released state-by-state population data in April, after more than a year of some unique data collection challenges, and more will be released this summer.

The Census Bureau must protect people's privacy when it releases demographic data from the 2020 count. Plans to change how it does that have sparked controversy over how it may affect redistricting.

U.S. Census Bureau officials have recapped the challenges of executing the nation’s head count.

A panel of judges has heard arguments over whether the U.S. Census Bureau can use a controversial statistical technique to keep people’s information private in the numbers used for drawing political districts.

The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens of the voting age population cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election.

The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and they show that America’s population growth has declined to its slowest rate since the Great Depression — a total now of just under 331.5 million.

Michigan’s slow population growth over the past decade will cost the state a U.S. House seat, continuing a decades-long trend as job-seekers and retirees have fled to other states.

The Census Bureau says it will be releasing the numbers used for determining how many congressional seats each state gets on Monday.

Young adults are leaving states such as New York and California for new destinations including Colorado, Florida and Texas.

The numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets can’t be released before next Monday.

Michigan’s top election official and its redistricting panel are asking the state Supreme Court for more time to adopt new congressional and legislative maps, pointing to delayed census data.

President Joe Biden says he'll pick the president of the American Statistical Association to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as it works toward releasing data from the 2020 census that will be used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts.

Sixteen states are backing Alabama’s challenge to a new method the Census Bureau is using in an effort to protect the privacy of people who participated in the head count.

After a decade of planning and a head count that was challenged by an unprecedented pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing the first numbers from the 2020 census before the end of the month.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is defending a controversial privacy technique being used by the U.S. Census Bureau for the first time in the 2020 census.

A report from two civil rights groups says a method being used for the first time by the U.S. Census Bureau to protect people’s privacy in 2020 census data could make voting rights enforcement more difficult.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Rose in Dayton, Ohio, rejected the state’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have forced the Census Bureau to release the redistricting data by March 31. Ohio filed its lawsuit last month after the Census Bureau said the redistricting data wouldn’t be available until September, months after the redistricting deadlines for many states. Posing the first challenge to the bureau's revised deadline on redistricting data, the lawsuit said the delay will undermine Ohio’s process of redrawing districts. The redistricting data includes counts of population by race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing occupancy status at geographic levels as small as neighborhoods. AdThe delay in releasing the redistricting data has sent states scrambling to come up with alternative plans.

The rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of the pandemic last spring to the start of the new school year last September, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report released this week. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)ORLANDO, Fla. – The rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of the pandemic last spring to the start of the new school year last September, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report released this week. Last spring, about 5.4% of all U.S. households with school-aged children were homeschooling them, but that figure rose to 11% by last fall, according to the bureau's Household Pulse Survey. Black households saw the largest jump in rates of homeschooling, going from 3.3% in the spring to 16.1% in the fall. Even Massachusetts, which has some of the nation's best public schools, went from 1.5% of households to 12.1% of households with school-aged children homeschooling.

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. At a hearing of the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, Republican lawmakers told acting Census Bureau director Ron Jarmin that the delay was upending their states' redistricting plans. The state of Alabama also has sued the Census Bureau in an effort to force it to release the redistricting data early. “That meant some of the work we would have started for the redistricting data was set aside for later. The acting Census Bureau director also said the cost of executing the 2020 census would be under its $15.6 billion budget.

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. The availability of the redistricting data in the outdated format in August was first disclosed last week in a statement by a Census Bureau official in the Ohio lawsuit. One of the reasons the extra time was needed for the redistricting data is that the Census Bureau originally had prioritized tasks to get the apportionment numbers finished, pushing back work on the redistricting data, Fontenot said. AdThe Census Bureau is working with outside experts to evaluate the quality of the 2020 census data given the challenges, and two statistical programmers have begun analyzing the data, the American Statistical Association said Thursday. A saving grace of the 2020 census was new technology, said Ron Jarmin acting Census Bureau director.

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)A coalition of cities, counties and civil rights groups sued the U.S. Census Bureau last year to stop it from ending the 2020 census early out of fear a premature finish would undercount minority communities. The census data are used not only to determine congressional seats and Electoral College votes but also the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year. The state of Alabama also has sued the Census Bureau in an effort to get it to release the redistricting data by March 31. Alabama's lawsuit also takes aim at a new method the Census Bureau is using to protect the privacy of participants in the 2020 census, arguing that it produces faulty numbers.

Cities formerly designated as metros with core populations between 50,000 and 100,000 people would be changed to micropolitan" statistical areas instead. Officials in some of the affected cities worry that the change could have adverse implications for federal funding and economic development. Cities formerly designated as metros with core populations between 50,000 and 100,000 people, like Bismarck and Sheboygan, would be changed to “micropolitan" statistical areas instead. “Back in the 1950s, the population it took to create a metro area is different than it would be to create a metro area in 2020," said Rob Santos, president of the American Statistical Association. AdSome demographers aren't sold on the idea of changing the definition of a metro area.

The U.S. Census Bureau said it wont be delivering data used for redrawing state and local legislative districts until the end of September 2021. That will cause headaches for state lawmakers and redistricting commissions facing deadlines to redraw state legislative districts this year. The compressed time frame for data collection increased the risk of compromised data quality, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in its High-Risk Report. The Trump administration then came up with another plan to end data collection a month early and cut the time for data processing by almost half. The statistical agency also announced last month that redistricting data used to redraw congressional and legislative districts won't be ready until the end of September.

The U.S. Census Bureau said it wont be delivering data used for redrawing state and local legislative districts until the end of September 2021. Styles had previously said the redistricting data would be available no earlier than the end of July because of delays caused by the virus. Before the pandemic, the deadline for finishing the redistricting data had been March 31. Unlike in past decades when the data were released to states on a flow basis, the 2020 redistricting data will be made available to the states all at once, according to the Census Bureau. The state House and Senate will hold a joint committee hearing Wednesday on the impact of the delay in the Census Bureau data.

The new goal for finishing data processing for the apportionment numbers used for congressional seats is now April 30. The delay in the release of redistricting data could be problematic for states that have deadlines this year for redrawing their districts. New Jersey was prepared for such a scenario, with voters last fall approving a constitutional amendment that would address late-arriving redistricting data. One other option includes using other data sets for redistricting and then reconciling those data sets with the redistricting data the Census Bureau releases after July, Williams said. Gina Raimondo has been picked by Biden to be Secretary of the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau.

FILE - This April 5, 2020, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. As part of an order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday on the 2020 census, the Census Bureau said Friday that it would discontinue efforts to create citizenship tabulations at the city-block level using 2020 census data combined with administrative records. Trump's commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, had ordered the production of the block-level citizenship data in 2018. The Trump administration made several attempts to gather citizenship data through the 2020 census, including adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire, which was blocked by the Supreme Court in 2019. The efforts at gathering the citizenship data were challenged by civil rights groups in federal court in Maryland.

“We are optimistic that things at the Census Bureau will be better. The Biden administration also has pledged to give the Census Bureau the time it needs to process the data. He will report to Biden's new pick to head the Commerce Department — which oversees the Census Bureau — Rhode Island Gov. Former Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt said he’s optimistic the final product will be as accurate as past censuses, especially now that Jarmin is at the helm. “The Census Bureau faced a number of challenges with the 2020 Census,” Schatz said in a letter.