Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an ...

When the 2020 census results were released, they showed a boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the ...

Two sociologists from Princeton University argue that the public was misled by 2020 census' multiracial boom findings.

Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ... the OMB combine the separate race and ethnicity categories into one question for the 2000 Census, and eliminate 'race' as a ...

At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no matter their skin color or ethnic origin. Still, both race ... In the United States, for example, Asian ...

FILE - A billboard highlighting the 2020 Census is seen in Dearborn, Mich., on Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) ...

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states ...

That’s the difference between the annual median earnings of full-time male and female workers across the U.S., according to the latest data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey.

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it should tally people into new race and ethnicity groups, the agency has released new research reflecting how U.S. residents from ...