The Trump administration has put in place a new acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau, NPR has learned. George Cook, an official at the Commerce Department, was named the bureau's leader as of ...

While the Census Bureau is best known for conducting the decennial count of every resident in the U.S., the agency continues to operate in years that don’t end in “0,” performing surveys that measure ...

Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit argue the 2020 Census wrongly overcounted the population in a partisan way: “When the federal ...

Motio Research's initial estimate of U.S. median household income for November 2025 is $87,160. Read more here.

Baby Boomers – adults born between 1946 and 1964 – will soon reach a milestone, when the oldest members of this generation turn 80.

The next major U.S. national census is in 2030, but this year, the Census Bureau will conduct field tests to try to come up ...

The Census Bureau plans to increase cloud migration to meet growing demand for its data and make better use of nontraditional sources, according to a request for information. Dubbed the Census ...

Detroit — The city of Detroit filed another federal lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Census Bureau and Commerce Department, accusing officials of undercounting residents, particularly Black and ...

An entrepreneur in California is weighing whether to open a new restaurant. A national chain headquartered in Illinois is making regional hiring plans. And a big-box store in Colorado is deciding how ...

San Diego County has seen its share of young residents, particularly children under the age of 5, declining over the past two ...

For the first time since 1950, the U.S. Census Bureau is planning to ask everyone living in the United States whether they are citizens when it conducts its next decennial census in 2020. Anticipating ...