Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift with political and social consequences.

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Minorities Show Gains in Youths, Census Finds

A Texas woman believed to be the world’s oldest person died Monday at the age of 114, according to her caretaker. Eunice Sanborn claimed she was actually 115, and that the U.S. Census Bureau erroneously recorded her birth year as 1896. A homemaker,…

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World’s Oldest Person Dies

Census Bureau demographers say new data shows that Jacksonville, Fla., is home to one of the biggest populations of gay parents in the country.

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Parenting by Gays More Common in the South, Census Shows

The recession blew a huge hole in the already shaky finances of state governments, causing them to lose nearly one-third of their revenue in 2009, according to a Census Bureau report released Wednesday.

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Detailing how the recession imploded states’ finances

The Census Bureau’s report that Nevada grew 35 percent over the last decade should have been a cause for celebration, but it was instead a reminder how bad things have become in the state.

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Behind Census Figures Showing Boom in Nevada, a Story of Bust

The announcement by the U.S. Census Bureau that the population stood at 308,745,538 on April 1 is a number for which many people have been waiting.

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Opinion: Census may surprise you

The Census Bureau is expected to release results of the 2010 Census on Tuesday, the first look at how the country has changed over the last decade.

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‘New portrait of America’ emerges with Census results

The American Community Survey offered a snapshot of a decade of racial and ethnic changes in the New York area.

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Region Is Reshaped as Minorities Go to Suburbs

The Census Bureau will announce this month that New York State’s Congressional delegation will shrink to the smallest it has been in 200 years.

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New York to Lose 1 or 2 Seats in House

More than a quarter of the unmarried women who gave birth in a recent year were living with a partner, a fertility survey by the bureau found.

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Census Finds Single Mothers and Live-In Partners

The U.S. Census Bureau is giving back almost a quarter of the money it received to do its job this year.

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Census Bureau gives back $1.6 billion