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.
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 2020 census missed about 1 million children under 5, a 5.46% undercount, and because census counts steer trillions in federal funding, a new First Focus analysis warns those missed kids cost their communities for a decade.
Los Angeles leads the country by a wide margin and holds the original Koreatown, followed by New York and Washington, DC. Fast-growing suburbs in Orange County and Atlanta show where Korean American settlement is heading, while California alone holds nearly a third of the national total.
About 37.9 million people of Mexican origin live in the United States, more than eight times the next largest group in this series. California and Texas hold over half the total, with Los Angeles metro alone counting 4.4 million.
As the United States marks its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026, here is how the nation changed from the first census of 1790, when it counted 3.9 million people in 13 states, to today's 335 million across 50.
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 U.S. death rate fell to the lowest level ever recorded in 2025, down 4.6% from 2024, with heart disease, cancer, and unintentional injuries the leading causes, according to new CDC data.
The share of U.S. residents who write in 'American' as their census ancestry fell from 10.6% to 8.4% since 2011, and it is most concentrated in Appalachia, led by Buchanan County, Virginia.
The New York metro leads with 800,178 people of Chinese origin, but California is the real center of gravity, with 1.54 million statewide across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose.
The U.S. median age hit a record 39.4 in 2025 as the 65-and-older population grew 16.2% and younger generations stalled, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
The national fertility rate is 51.3 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 50. The places that beat it share a structure, not a region: military bases, religious communities, and agricultural Hispanic counties.
New Census Bureau population estimates show the South was the only U.S. region where the under-18 population grew from 2020 to 2025, while it fell in the Northeast, Midwest, and West and the national median age kept rising.
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.
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.
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.
