2020 census

Marc Perry, a senior demographer at the U.S. Census Bureau, said in an email that “for the past several decades the general trend has been for the fastest-growing cities of 50k+ population to be located on the outskirts of generally fast-growing metro areas in the South and West.”

The state of Alabama has asked to dismiss its lawsuit challenging a controversial statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau

While America is more diverse than ever, it’s also becoming more siloed: more educated people are increasingly concentrating themselves in cities. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky breaks down the early data from the 2020 Census and explains how it will impact your Congressional district and the political world.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Census Bureau for the time being to stop following a plan that would have had it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September

A U.S. Census Bureau document says some steps in the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census will need to be cut in order to meet an end-of-the-year deadline and that could increase the risk for errors.

The census deadline is at the end of this month, so census workers are urging you to complete it as soon as possible, Chris Glorioso reports.

More than a half-dozen cities, counties and civil right groups have sued the Trump administration, saying there was no justification for its decision to cut the 2020 census short by a month

If you haven’t filled out the 2020 census form yet, you may be getting an email, call or questionnaire in the mail asking you to answer the questions

The Census Bureau has another challenge as widespread door-knocking for the 2020 survey begins next week

President Donald Trump’s memo aims to omit undocumented immigrants from the apportionment base, which is, in part, used to determine how many seats a state gets in the House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in congressional reapportionment, a move that drew immediate criticism and promises of court challenges. Trump said that “respect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process warrant the exclusion of illegal aliens from the apportionment base,...

The 2020 U.S. Census is required for anyone living in the United States, but there are billions of reasons you’d want to take it: lawmakers use census data to divvy up money for important resources like hospitals, fire stations and roads. Lawmakers will rely on this year’s census data until 2030, so now’s your chance to make sure your household...

The U.S. Census Bureau wants to delay deadlines for the 2020 head count of all U.S. residents because of the coronavirus outbreak.

NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain goes deeper into the history of the U.S. Census and what it means for the populations that get overlooked during the nationwide count every 10 years.

Civil rights groups, lawmakers, attorney generals, former Census Bureau directors and actors like Rita Moreno and George Takei say they are forming a coalition to protect the confidentiality of the 2020 census

The coronavirus has waylaid efforts to get as many people as possible to take part in the census

The U.S. Census Bureau is delaying the deadline for counting everyone in the U.S. by two weeks because of the spreading novel coronavirus

The U.S. Census Bureau has suspended field operations for two weeks, citing the health and safety of its workers and the U.S. public from the novel coronavirus

Who gets to be “Person 1?”

The start of the 2020 census is just a month away for most U.S. residents. A new report says the U.S. Census Bureau has succeeded so far in early tasks but is at risk of not being ready for future operations.