New Census Bureau estimates show North Carolina's Hispanic population grew 4.5% last year and its Asian population is up 32% since 2020, despite tighter immigration enforcement. Because both groups are younger, they are slowing the rise in the state's median age.
Camille Jones, a former supervisory official at the U.S. Census Bureau, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for steering a multimillion-dollar contract to a relative's company in exchange for $790,000 in kickbacks.
The Census Bureau counts 1,001,966 people of Spaniard origin, meaning from Spain itself. California leads, but the tell is New Mexico at fourth, home to the centuries-old Hispano descendants of Spanish colonists.
The national broadband subscription rate is 91.0%, but the gap is geographic. The rural South and Southwestern tribal lands sit far below, with some Mississippi Delta counties under half.
Filipino Americans number just over 3 million, and California holds nearly half of them. Here is where the community concentrates, from Los Angeles and San Diego to Honolulu and fast-growing Las Vegas.
Argentine Americans are one of the more dispersed groups in this series. Florida leads with 77,897 of the 320,296 national total, but California, New York, and New Jersey all hold large shares, and the settlement favors affluent suburbs over one historic enclave.
A new Census Bureau model estimates more than 800,000 Mississippi River basin households lack air conditioning, with the largest gap in Wisconsin, where over 7% of homes and about one in ten in Milwaukee go without.
The stateside Puerto Rican population is 5.97 million. New York still has the largest metro and city, but Florida has passed it at the state level as Orlando and Tampa surge.
U.S. population growth fell by roughly 1.5 million in a single year, and Latinos account for nearly two-thirds of the drop. The cause is not birth rates. It is a 54% collapse in immigration.
The census asks your age, income, and commute but never your religion, and since 1976 it is legally barred from requiring the answer. The case for and against adding it.
German is the largest ancestry in the country at 41.8 million, yet it has no single capital. It spreads across the Midwest heartland and turns up near the top of almost every large metro.
The Census Bureau will hold a July 21 industry day as it plans a small-business contract worth up to $1 billion to build the technology behind the 2030 census.
About 1.25 million Americans claim Hungarian ancestry, concentrated in the industrial Rust Belt where their ancestors worked the steel mills. Ohio leads the states and Cleveland the metros.
Nearly 1.9 million Vietnamese Americans cluster in California and Texas, with the Los Angeles metro and Orange County's Little Saigon leading the map shaped by refugee resettlement after 1975.
About 16.2 million Americans report Italian ancestry, and they cluster hard in the Northeast. The New York metro alone holds 2.13 million, dwarfing Philadelphia, Boston, and Pittsburgh.
Nonwhite residents accounted for all of Georgia's growth of more than 500,000 people since 2020, and the state is now about 52% nonwhite, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
Irish ancestry reaches 31.6 million Americans. By metro it concentrates in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, but the biggest state totals now include California, Florida, and Texas.
Black-owned businesses in Ohio grew their payroll 82% from 2017 to 2023, adding jobs and economic share, with the Cincinnati metro up 125%, according to a new analysis of Census data.
New York's metro leads with 680,756 Indian Americans, but the real story is tech and Texas. Dallas ranks second, San Jose and Fremont show the densest tech-hub concentrations, and New Jersey holds a huge community for its size.
New experimental Census data estimates about 49,722 Tennessee households, roughly 2%, have no air conditioning, a gap that turned dangerous as heat-index temperatures topped 110 degrees.
