U.S. Census

Racial diversity in Ohio has increased over the past decade, but the rate of growth isn’t happening at the same pace across the state.

The United States is now more multinational, racially and ethnically diverse than ever. See how governments, from the federal level to the local level, use the numbers to plan for the future.

Columbus grew significantly over the past decade, as the state's traditionally rural and Appalachian regions lost residents, new census figures showed Thursday.

For months, COVID-19 and interference by Trump officials delayed the release of new census demographic data used to redraw voting districts, forcing some state and local elections to be pushed back.

A federal court denied Alabama's request to force the Census Bureau to move up the release of new redistricting data and stop plans for a different way of keeping people's information confidential.

The state of Ohio and the U.S. Census Bureau have asked a judge to place on hold their court fight over when data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts will be released.

A federal appeals court has sided with Ohio’s attorney general in his lawsuit to get U.S. Census data earlier to draw new legislative maps, but the leader of the Ohio Senate says at this point, he’s not sure it will make a difference.

An appellate court has sent a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Census Bureau’s delay in releasing data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts back to a trial court and ordered a judge to come up with a remedy between the statistical agency and the state of Ohio.

The early data from the census is in and as expected, Ohio lost one of its 16 seats in the U.S. House. We consider the census problem and how the redistricting process works this time around.

Ohio will lose a seat in Congress according to data from the 2020 U.S. Census released on Monday. Other states that also lost congressional seats include California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.