2020 Census

The conventional wisdom has been that Vermont is a state people move from, rather than to. But recent census data reveal that the Green Mountain State has experienced its highest population growth in a decade. What’s driving the trend? And will it continue?

Newly sworn-in Census Bureau Director Robert Santos told NPR it's important to make sure there are policies in place to better protect the agency from any future political interference.

Growing numbers of Latinos turned a mysterious census category into the country's second-largest racial group. Researchers say that makes it harder to address racial inequities over the next decade.

After more than a year of delays, the findings of the 2020 Census have been released. The once-a-decade count is used to realign both the country’s 435 districts of the U.S. House, as well as state legislatures nationwide, to reflect changes in population. It's a process known as redistricting in some places, and it’s called reapportionment in Vermont. Now, delays at the federal level mean Vermont’s apportionment board has gotten a late start to redrawing the state’s political map.

New Hampshire grew modestly over the last decade but lost population in some rural counties.

No census has been perfect. COVID-19, Trump officials' interference and the Census Bureau's new privacy protections have raised concerns about the reliability of demographic data from the 2020 count.

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.

What the plan to merge Castleton with Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College means for the community. Plus, the first batch of 2020…

Based on population shifts recorded by the 2020 census, Texas, Florida and North Carolina are among the states gaining representation, while California, New York and Pennsylvania are losing influence.

How much say your state has in Congress and the Electoral College is determined through a little-known, once-a-decade process based on the census.