Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or the nation as a whole. Every 10 years, the Census Bureau asks about people’s ages, racial ...

As the country waits for more results from last year's national head count, the U.S. Census Bureau is facing an increasingly tricky balancing act. How will the largest public data source in the United ...

Two lawsuits could change how the 2030 census counts people — and which states gain or lose seats and funding.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

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

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 ...

Republican Senator Jim Banks is asking the Department of Commerce to review, and possibly re-do, the 2020 census, believing former President Joe Biden miscounted data to benefit Democrats – despite ...