The 2020 census nailed the national total but missed a million young children and undercounted Black, Hispanic, and Native residents. Here are the four fixes on the table for 2030, from administrative records to reliable technology.
The Gini index measures how evenly income is spread, from 0 to 1. The U.S. sits at 0.476. Here are the large cities where the gap runs widest, and what the number does and does not tell you.
The national median age is 38.9, but a few cities sit way out at the edges. The oldest are Sun Belt retirement developments. The youngest split between Hasidic communities and college towns. Three different machines, one number.
Brickell, Lincoln Park, Capitol Hill, Wicker Park: seven of America's most talked-about neighborhoods, and what the census data reveals about income, home values, and density behind the vibe.
Illinois's under-20 population fell about 7% since 2020, more than three times the national rate, and an Illinois Policy Institute analyst ties the gap to outmigration and the state's high taxes.
Louisiana added 3,300 residents from 2024 to 2025, its second straight annual gain, but 14,000 people left for other states and the only inflow came from abroad.
New York averages 40.3 minutes one way, more than double Lubbock's 16.3. Here's what the commute numbers show about coastal metros, super-commuter cities, and the easy mid-size towns in between.
The Houston metro added 126,720 people from 2024 to 2025, the most of any U.S. metro area and just ahead of Dallas-Fort Worth, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
The cities with the most never-married adults are dense urban cores like Detroit and Boston, while the most-married big cities are really suburbs. Plus the one place where the usual men-vs-women pattern flips: Washington, DC.
In the richest city in California, the median household income and the median home value both run so high that the Census Bureau stops counting and reports them as 'more than' a ceiling. Nine of the ten wealthiest cities in the state sit within an hour of San Francisco. Here is the list.
New York State's wealthiest cities are not in New York City. They are in the suburbs surrounding it, concentrated almost entirely in Westchester County to the north and Nassau County...
Where can you still buy a house and watch your paycheck grow? We screened Census data for counties that are both cheap and gaining income, from the Texas border to metro-adjacent counties near St. Louis, Louisville, and Kansas City.
The fastest-shrinking large cities split into two very different stories: people priced out of the expensive coasts, and the long structural decline of the South and Midwest. Here is why you shouldn't read them as the same trend.
The richest county in America has a median household income nearly five times the poorest. Here's the full top and bottom of the list, and what the geography shows.
Nobody can pin a 2050 population number for any single state. So we do the honest thing: take today's growth rates, assume they roughly hold, and follow the line. The Sun Belt and Mountain West keep climbing while parts of the Northeast and Midwest keep sliding.
Phoenix added more than 650,000 residents since 1990 and is closing in on 1.7 million, which makes it the fastest-growing large city in the country. Before you join them, the Census data has a few things to tell you about incomes, housing, and the heat that the brochures leave out.
The most racially diverse cities in the country are not the famous big ones. They are mid-sized suburbs and satellite cities near Seattle, San Francisco, and New York, where no single racial group comes close to a majority and the odds that two random residents share a background are almost a coin flip.
In the most educated residential city in the country, more than nine of every ten adults hold a bachelor's degree, roughly triple the national rate. The places where that is true form a tight pattern: wealthy suburbs of New York, Boston, Dallas, and the Bay Area, plus a few college towns where almost everyone is a student or a professor.
The United States as a whole has become steadily more diverse since 2000. But a handful of individual cities have moved in the opposite direction, becoming less diverse rather than more. The mechanism is almost always the same: gentrification...
Atlanta and Charlotte are the two cities that defined the Southeast's rise as an economic region over the past 35 years. Both started the 1990s as mid-sized Southern cities with regional profiles and have grown into nationally significant metros with Fortune 500 headquarters, major financial sectors, and...
