2000 United States census
22nd United States national census
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| 2024 | Census data was used to determine the distribution of electoral votes for the United States presidential election. |
| September 2024 | Planned release date for detailed demographic and housing data. |
| August 2023 | Planned release date for congressional district summary files. |
| May 25 2023 | Demographic and housing data about local communities (DHC) is released. |
| May 19 2022 | Additional census data revealed significant population undercounts in six states (Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas) and overcounts in eight states (Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah). |
| March 10 2022 | Census Bureau released estimates of population overcount and undercount by demographic characteristics, revealing significant disparities in population counting across different racial and ethnic groups. |
| April 26 2021 | Census Bureau officially announced the 2020 census apportionment figures, detailing changes in congressional representation for 13 states. States losing one seat included California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. States gaining seats were Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon (one seat each), and Texas (two seats). |
| April 26 2021 | Population results are released for the entire country and each state. |
| January 20 2021 | President Joe Biden issues an executive order revoking Trump's previous executive orders related to the census citizenship question, restoring standard practice for counting undocumented immigrants. |
| 2020 | Equipped census takers with secure iPhone 8 smartphones for digital case management, allowing assignment reception, navigation, communication, and timesheet submission. |
| 2020 | Implemented multilingual census response, allowing completion in 13 languages online or by phone, with language guides and identification cards available in 59 non-English languages. |
| 2020 | The coronavirus pandemic causes significant delays to census field operations, including counts of homeless populations and people living in group quarters. |
| 2020 | Census was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly impacted its administration and data collection process. |
| 2020 | Replaced traditional street-level address canvassing with satellite imagery and GPS technology to identify housing changes, sending workers only to verify specific areas. |
| 2020 | Utah demonstrated the highest percentage population growth at 18.4%, increasing from 2,763,885 to 3,271,616 residents. |
| 2020 | Texas experienced the largest numeric population growth, adding 3,999,944 residents since 2010, representing a 15.9% increase. |
| December 31 2020 | The Census Bureau delivers apportionment counts to the U.S. president (originally delayed to April 30, 2021). |
| December 18 2020 | The Supreme Court ruled the case was premature due to lack of standing and ripeness, vacating the District Court's previous ruling and remanding the case to be dismissed. |
| November 30 2020 | Oral arguments for the census apportionment memo case were heard by the Supreme Court. |
| October 22 2020 | Final date for paper census responses to arrive at the processing center. |
| October 19 2020 | Census Bureau announced that 99.98% of addresses had been accounted for, with nearly all states achieving over a 99.9% response rate. |
| October 16 2020 | The 2020 United States census count officially ends. |
| October 16 2020 | The Supreme Court accepted the petition regarding the census apportionment memo and scheduled expedited oral arguments. |
| October 15 2020 | Final date for paper census responses to be postmarked. |
| October 15 2020 | Self-response data collection ends with over 99.9% of households having self-responded or been counted by census takers. |
| October 13 2020 | Supreme Court issued a 7-1 ruling granting the request to end the census count early, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the lone dissenter. |
| October 2 2020 | Census Bureau announced the count would continue until October 31. Judge Lucy Koh also threatened to hold Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for repeated violations of her order. |
| September 2020 | Federal district court judge Lucy Koh issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration's plan to end census counting on September 30, blocking the early completion and preventing delivery of results by December 31. |
| September 23 2020 | Officials count people experiencing homelessness by visiting shelters, soup kitchens, mobile food vans, and non-sheltered outdoor locations like tent encampments. |
| September 18 2020 | The Trump administration filed notice to appeal the District Court's rejection directly to the Supreme Court, bypassing the typical circuit court appeals process. |
| September 10 2020 | A three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York unanimously rejected the Trump administration's census apportionment memo, ruling it was obviously illegal. |
| August 3 2020 | Census Bureau announced that field collection would end on September 30, instead of the previously planned October 31, due to COVID-19 challenges. |
| July 21 2020 | President Trump signed a memo to the Department of Commerce instructing not to include illegal immigrants in census totals for apportionment purposes. The memo argued that the Constitution does not explicitly define which 'persons' must be included in the apportionment base. |
| July 14 2020 | The self-response rate reached 62.1%, with 91,800,000 households having completed their census questionnaire. |
| June 5 2020 | Census Bureau announced that field activities had restarted in 247 of 248 area census offices stateside, all offices in Puerto Rico and island areas, covering 98.9% of the nation's update leave workload. |
| May 2020 | Census offices restarted work in mid-May after initial delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. |
| May 22 2020 | Census Bureau announced May 25 restart dates for ten more states and reopened offices in American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
| May 22 2020 | By this date, 60.0% of all U.S. households had submitted their census questionnaire online, by mail, or by phone. |
| May 4 2020 | U.S. Census Bureau began publishing dates for a phased restart of 2020 census field operations in select geographic areas, with plans to provide personal protective equipment to field staff. |
| April 24 2020 | Dillingham and Census Bureau officials briefed the House Committee on Oversight and Reform about the agency's COVID-19 response, explaining a phased restart of census operations. |
| April 15 2020 | Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham responded to the Department of Commerce inspector general's memo about COVID-19 emergency plans, reiterating the need for additional time to ensure census completeness and accuracy. |
| April 13 2020 | Department of Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross and Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham announced operational adjustments, including seeking 120 additional days from Congress to complete the census, with field data collection extended to October 31, 2020. |
| April 10 2020 | Census Bureau announced steps to make more employees available to respond to requests at call centers. |
| April 1 2020 | Census Day was established as the official reference date for the 24th decennial United States census, marking the first census to offer online and phone response options in addition to paper forms. |
| March 28 2020 | U.S. Census Bureau issued another press release extending field operations suspension for an additional two weeks through April 15, 2020, after learning of a COVID-19 positive employee at the National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana. |
| March 27 2020 | Census Bureau announced temporary suspension of in-person interviews for ongoing surveys, citing staffing adjustments at call centers due to health guidance. |
| March 18 2020 | U.S. Census Bureau issued a press release announcing suspension of 2020 census field operations for two weeks until April 1, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| March 12 2020 | Most U.S. households were mailed an invitation letter to begin the census self-response process between March 12-20. |
| January 21 2020 | The Census Bureau begins counting the population in remote Alaska, with Toksook Bay being the first town enumerated. |
| September 2019 | A coalition of fifteen states and other groups were granted intervention in the census lawsuit, following comments by Attorney General Barr about potential immigration data considerations. |
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