Last week was nerd Christmas for political data devotees. The U.S. Census released the latest batch of redistricting data from its 2020 headcount, including key measures on race, ethnicity and geography. And two key elements emerged out of the data drop: The country is growing more racially and ethnically diverse […] Read more »
New 2020 census results show increased diversity countering decade-long declines in America’s white and youth populations
The first release of race-ethnic statistics from the 2020 census makes plain that America’s “diversity explosion” is continuing, albeit in the context of slower national growth, especially among the youth. The new numbers show that, for the first time, there was a decade-long loss in the number of white Americans […] Read more »
What the Census results tell us about the future US electorate
More 2020 Census results are in, and it’s clear that the trends we have been seeing over the last few decades show no signs of slowing down. You might say that we’ve crossed a tipping point of sorts that may have major political implications moving forward. The United States is […] Read more »
As New Census Numbers Show, the Biggest Divide Isn’t North v. South Anymore—It’s Metro v. Rural
On Thursday, the Census Bureau released the 2020 census data for cities, counties, and other geographic subdivisions. Just as with the state-level numbers announced in April, there were some surprises. Many large metropolitan areas grew faster over the past decade than the Bureau had previously projected, with eight of the […] Read more »
Census shows US is diversifying, white population shrinking
The Census Bureau on Thursday issued its most detailed portrait yet of how the U.S. has changed over the past decade, releasing a trove of demographic data that will be used to redraw political maps across an increasingly diverse country. … The figures show continued migration to the South and […] Read more »
Census experts puzzled by high rate of unanswered questions
Census Bureau statisticians and outside experts are trying to unravel a mystery: Why were so many questions about households in the 2020 census left unanswered? Residents did not respond to a multitude of questions about sex, race, Hispanic background, family relationships and age, even when providing a count of the […] Read more »