The census is a count of those living in the United States and in its territories: Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Are you familiar with the U.S. Census? The data collection that provides information on the country’s population has been the topic of discussion as President Donald Trump calls for a major change in ...

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.

This is the second case the court has heard in two years over the 2020 census and particularly concerning immigrants. And both federal law and the Constitution say that once a decade, the government ...

The U.S. Census Bureau released its first version of the 2030 Census Operational Plan, which outlines the framework to conduct the nation's next decennial population and housing count. The document, ...

Despite the pandemic in 2020, it was still a census year: that time once every 10 years when people fill out questionnaires and send data back to the government to update population records, which are ...

President Donald Trump is trying to change the country's population count, this week ordering the Commerce Department to work on a new census, of which he's proposing to not count undocumented ...

A new trove of memos and emails suggests that the plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census aimed to cause an undercount that would favor Republicans. By Miriam Jordan A new stash of ...