The most popular last names in the U.S. might be unchanged from the previous decade, but Asian surnames were the fastest-growing at the start of 2020s.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that men and women have different views on who has the advantage when it comes to earning competitive wages.

Congressional Democrats are warning that the U.S. Census Bureau risks undermining an upcoming test of the 2030 census by using a form that includes a citizenship question.

Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census.

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question for its 2030 census practice test.

The Trump administration is eliminating four out of six planned locations for a 2030 census practice test.

President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has contributed to a year-to-year drop in the U.S. growth rate as the nation's population hit nearly 342 million people in 2025.

Texas has become the top source of new residents for nine other states, despite its own population growth.

The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who'll be counted.

New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal a grim reality for many Detroit families: more than half of all children in the city are now living below the poverty line.

A Trump appointee has been picked as the acting head of the U.S. Census Bureau.

A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee disbanded by the Trump administration has reconstituted itself.

Redistricting usually happens after the once-a-decade population count by the U.S. Census Bureau or in response to a court ruling.

The group run by Elon Musk that aims to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting U_S_ Census Bureau surveys it claims are “wasteful."

According to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday, Detroit’s population grew by nearly 7,000 residents in the past year, pushing the city’s total to 645,705 and marking the second consecutive year of growth.

The largest urban counties in the U.S. kept growing last year because of immigrants.

The U.S. Census Bureau under the Trump administration has sought permission to delete questions about gender identity from a monthly survey.

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to resign.

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010.

The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ethnicity groups.

Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents.

The U.S. Census Bureau is changing how it counts international migration in its annual population estimates.

Not long ago, Polk County’s biggest draw was citrus.

Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, and changes to queries about race and ethnicity, are on track to be on the questionnaire for the most comprehensive survey of American life by 2027.

The first widening of the gender wage in 20 years is the latest indication that many women have paid a price for leaving the workforce at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, either because they lost their jobs or because they quit because of caretaking responsibilities.

The percentage of U.S. residents born outside the country reached its highest level in more than a century in 2023.

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

Adding a citizenship question to the census reduces the participation of people who aren’t U.S. citizens, particularly those from Latin American countries.

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.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the number of residents of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds who joined the state's population.

Same-sex spouses were typically younger and were more likely to be employed than those in opposite-sex marriages, although many of those differences disappeared after the legalization of gay marriage in 2015.

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.

There is a lot of positive momentum around Detroit. The city’s population surge is now catching the country’s attention.

U.S. Census Bureau estimates show America's Northeast and Midwest cities are rebounding slightly from years of population drops, highlighted by modest growth in Detroit after decades of declines.

The rate of businesses in the U.S. using AI is still relatively small but growing rapidly.

More than half of the foreign-born population in the United States lives in just four states — California, Texas, Florida and New York.

Population decline is not a new problem for Michigan, but the numbers keep getting worse, especially for Metro Detroit.

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for its most comprehensive survey of American life.

The U.S. Census Bureau is thinking about how to ask about sex.

Facing a growing backlash, the U.S. Census Bureau has halted plans to change how it asks people about disabilities.

Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting more state funding.

The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people.

Immigration powered population gains in the United States for a second year in a row.

The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates don't like where things are heading.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world's population has topped 8 billion for the first time.

The Census Bureau is predicting an older and more diverse America in the coming decades, along with other projections through the year 2100.

It could be the last day in the 70s for a while in Metro Detroit.

A new report says the U.S. Census Bureau’s career staffers valiantly conducted the 2020 census under unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

New U.S. Census Bureau data shows for the first time, people of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry make up the majority of Dearborn's population, 54.5%.

The U.S. Census Bureau is asking the Biden administration for permission to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for people age 15 and above on its most comprehensive annual survey of life in the country.

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising.

A majority of Native American tribes won't get the full suite of detailed demographic data from the 2020 census they had in the previous census.

Only a single municipality, the Village of Pingree Grove in Illinois, has signed a contract so far with the U.S. Census Bureau to have the agency conduct a repeat head count following the 2020 census.

A misplaced naval ship in California, overlooked students in New York City and missed inmates in Texas are some of the reasons that the two most populous states and the largest city in the U.S. have filed last-minute 2020 census corrections requests.

The window for local, state and tribal governments to challenge their 2020 census figures closes after Friday, and with it the opportunity to correct mistakes in population totals that could cost them millions of dollars in federal funding.

This weekend could not have more tranquil weather for festivals and other outdoor events, but precautions are needed.

The head count of every U.S. resident in 2020 helped guide the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual federal spending, underscoring the importance of participating in the once-a-decade census.

The U.S. Census Bureau says it is delaying the release, and narrowing the scope, of some of the most detailed data from the 2020 census — until next year.

Phoenix has become the largest U.S. city to successfully challenge its population count from the 2020 census.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan described the U.S. Census Bureau as "The most incompetent division of the federal government."

Some of America's largest cities that challenged their 2020 census numbers are hearing back from the U.S. Census Bureau.

A number of noncitizens appear to have been missed in the 2020 census.

The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a person’s ancestry on its most comprehensive survey.

A coding error in an annual survey by the U.S. Census Bureau has offered unprecedented insight into how large numbers of Brazilians in the U.S. identify as Hispanic.

The U.S. Census Bureau says 43% of Hispanics either didn’t respond to the question asking them to select their race or selected the “some other race” box on the 2020 census form.

Response rates to federal surveys have been dropping in recent years due to growing public concern about privacy and online scams.

U.S. cities and towns that have challenged their 2020 census population figures appear to be winning only small victories.

OBLG has found the number of wealthy Ann Arborites has increased 76 percent in the past decade.

The world population is projected to be 7.9 billion people on New Year’s Day 2023, with nearly 74 million people added since New Year’s Day 2022.

More than 1,100 towns, hamlets and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria.

The U.S. Census Bureau is putting on hold plans to apply by 2025 a controversial method for protecting the privacy of participants in its most comprehensive survey of Americans after facing pushback from prominent researchers and demographers.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s chief is defending a new tool meant to protect the privacy of people participating in the agency’s questionnaires against calls to abandon it by prominent researchers and demographers.

Want to know the age and sex breakdown of people of Japanese ancestry in your U.S. state or territory.

It’s not every day that a small hamlet in the Missouri Ozarks is in the middle of everything.

Detroit is suing the U.S. Census Bureau over population estimates from last year that show the city lost an additional 7,100 residents.

The City of Detroit filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 population estimate shorted the city’s population by tens of thousands of residents.

Income inequality in the U.S. increased last year for the first time in more than a decade.

Democratic lawmakers are intent on making sure that unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to politicize the 2020 census never happen again.

Prominent demographers are asking the U.S. Census Bureau to abandon a controversial method for protecting survey and census participants’ confidentiality.

Some Trump administration officials had initial doubts that it was legal to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census but pressed forward and attempted to add it.

A U.S. Census Bureau director couldn’t be fired without cause and new questions to a census form would have to be vetted by Congress under proposed legislation that attempts to prevent in the future the type of political interference into the nation’s head count that took place during the Trump administration.

A U.S. House committee has approved legislation that would put voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on federal surveys.

Sexual orientation and gender identity.

Eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.

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

Policymakers and demographers have been asking whether it's time to rethink the census after results released last week that showed Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were undercounted in greater rates in 2020 than a decade ago.

New data released by the Census Bureau shows the U.S. grew wealthier, better educated and poverty declined during the second half of the last decade.

A new report shows Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were missed at higher rates than a decade ago during the 2020 U.S. census.

The U.S. Census Bureau will release reports Thursday that show how good of a job the agency believes it did in counting every U.S. resident during the 2020 census.

The new U.S. Census Bureau director says he is listening to the concerns of data users and policymakers, and the agency is making permanent community outreach efforts, in an effort to restore any trust that was lost following attempts by the Trump administration to politicize the nation’s head count.

U.S. Census Bureau officials say data from a 5-year version of a widely-utilized survey measuring how Americans live meet its standards and will be released next month.

The U.S. Census Bureau has begun accepting challenges from states, cities and tribal nations that want to contest the results of the 2020 census.

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.

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.

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.