2020 Census

More than 1,300 urban areas will now be designated rural.

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.

The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director.

An analysis found the 2020 census missed about 1.6 million people, though the undercount was actually smaller than expected given the pandemic and other hurdles.

A method used by the Census Bureau for the first time to protect confidentiality in the 2020 census has made people and occupied homes vanish — at least on paper — when they actually exist in the real world.

The Census Bureau has issued its most detailed portrait yet of how the U.S. has changed over the past decade.

“The passing of Steven Weinberg is a loss for The University of Texas and for society,” UT President Jay Hartzell said in a statement.

According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, West Virginia lost a higher percentage of its residents than any other state in the nation.

The U.S. Census Bureau numbers are state population counts that show how many residents each state has gained or lost over the past decade, which is used to determine congressional seats and Electoral College votes.

The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.

The high court said it was too soon to rule on the legality of Trump's plan because it's not yet clear how many people he would seek to exclude and whether the division of House seats would be affected.

Census workers told The Associated Press they were pressured to do so.

Two census takers tell The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited.

Both sides are informed by the experience of the 2000 election, which was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore.

The justices signaled in their order Friday that they will hear arguments in December and issue a decision by early January, when Trump must report the once-a-decade census results to Congress.