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 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.
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.
The Census Bureau is reverting the 2027 American Community Survey to 1997 race and ethnicity standards, abandoning a 2024 overhaul that would have combined the race and ethnicity questions and added a Middle Eastern or North African category.
The Census Bureau divides the entire United States into 84,000 small statistical neighborhoods called census tracts. Each one covers roughly 1,200 to 8,000 residents, which is close enough to a real neighborhood that the data actually tells you something meaningful about a specific place, not just a city average that smooths over everything interesting. CensusEasy indexes all of them, and we built two tools specifically for people who want to explore the country at that level...
Hi, I'm Paul and I've spent years building web platforms around public data, and Census data kept coming up as the most interesting and most underserved category out there. The data itself is remarkable: every city, every ZIP code, every census tract in the country, with population, income, housing, education, and dozens of other metrics going back more than thirty years...
