Census Bureau

DeSantis argues that an undercount of almost 3.5% by the U.S. Census Bureau missed around 761,000 residents. However, experts say the overcount and undercount numbers can’t change congressional seat allocation.

Before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed James Uthmeier, his former chief of staff, as attorney general, Uthmeier worked in the first Trump administration in the Department of Commerce, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau. Now Uthmeier’s past is present after President Donald Trump called for a rare, mid-decade census to exclude immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Jessica Lowe-Minor, the president of the League of Women Voters of Florida is warning state legislators not to embark on a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan, saying it's unprecedented and goes against the 2010 “Fair Districts” constitutional amendment.

“We strongly condemn Donald Trump’s call to trample on the voting rights of millions by ordering an unlawful census,” Equal Ground Executive Director Genesis Robinson told WLRN.

The Florida Republican senator and Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, on Monday introduced the Equal Representation Act to exclude non-U.S. citizens from the nation's decennial count.

The percentage of U.S. residents born outside the country reached its highest level in more than a century in 2023. That's one of the findings of a survey of American life released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In a new study ranking cities by people's friendliness and willingness to help, Miami places near the bottom in all categories. On the South Florida Roundup, we explored why the city regularly frequents the wrong end of these studies.

The Biden administration is proposing that the U.S. census and federal surveys change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and add a checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African."

Robert Santos is the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau and the first Latino to hold that position. He spoke on Sundial Now about how he wants to establish more trust and engage with more Black and Latino communities.

Robert Santos is the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau and the first Latino to hold that position. He spoke on Sundial Now about how he wants to establish more trust and engage with more Black and Latino communities.

Newly released documents confirm the Trump administration's push for a citizenship question was part of a bid to alter the census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress and the Electoral College.

After years of census meddling by former President Donald Trump's administration, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., has introduced a bill that could help protect future counts from interference.