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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
