Census

Massachusetts will retain all nine of its U.S. House seats following the release of new Census Bureau data Monday that showed the state’s total population topping 7 million for the first time — up from 6.5 million in the 2010 census. Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who oversees the census in Massachusetts, said he was pleased with the count….

The first set of results from the 2020 census left Massachusetts lawmakers relieved: the state isn’t losing any seats this time around.

Rhode Island is enjoying a census surprise: The state’s population grew enough for it to retain its two seats in Congress, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Monday. The state’s population increased by 4.3%, from about 1.05 million residents in the 2010 census to nearly 1.1 million in 2020, the agency reported. Demographers and political experts have been warning…

The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday released state population totals that determine the number of House seats each state gets out of 435. According to the data, southern states grew the fastest, with a 10.2% overall increase in population.

The Census Bureau’s missed deadlines could spell bad news for Democrats in Virginia and Republicans in New Jersey in legislative elections this year

The U.S. Census Bureau is aiming to deliver the long-delayed numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by the end of April

The Census Bureau says it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.

When census takers tried to count the nation’s homeless population, they ran into many problems that could threaten the accuracy of the effort

The fate of this year’s census remains uncertain as the deadline to finalize the numbers approaches and experts express doubt about the government’s ability to produce an accurate count of the country under such tight constraints.

The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether the Trump administration can exclude people in the country illegally from the count used for divvying up congressional seats

The director of the Census Bureau says irregularities have been found during the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census.

When it comes to the wealthiest places in Massachusetts, a new town can claim top dollar, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Dover has the highest estimated median household income in the Bay State, at $212,574. The data, the most recent available from the Census Bureau, measures estimated 2018 income in “census-designated places.” In many instances, a census-designated place is…

Two census takers told The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited so they could close cases during the waning days of the once-a-decade national headcount.

For the second time in two months, a panel of federal judges has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from being counted during the process of divvying up congressional seats by state.

The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to end the 2020 census this week put the brakes on a whiplashed census that had faced starts and stops from the pandemic, natural disasters and court rulings.

A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September

A U.S. Census Bureau manager in Illinois instructed employees to start layoffs two weeks after a federal judge prohibited the agency from winding down the 2020 census

Plans for the 2020 Census were upended by the pandemic, and with the deadline now just weeks away, advocates fear some communities will be disadvantaged for years if they’re under-counted. From Boston to Lawrence, Springfield and the Cape, wide-ranging efforts are underway to drive up participation, from outreach at food pantries and COVID-19 testing sites to calls from religious leaders…

The race is on to make sure everyone in Massachusetts is counted.