Census and Demographic Data

Geographic Distribution of Funds to States

Counting for Pennies, a way to discuss community resources:  Check out this lesson to understand the importance of counting everyone in your community so that the money collected by the government is returned to the people.  Explore the activity and download the board.

2020 Census workers preparing for the decennial count.

Keep an eye on how the 2020 Census data are reported

• Disclosure Avoidance for the 2020 Census: An Introduction, U.S. Census Bureau, November 2021

• 2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes and Nation’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity, U.S. Census Bureau, August 12, 2021

  • Decennial Census P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data

  • News Conference August 12, 2020

• Differential Privacy

  • The use of differential privacy for census data and its impact on redistricting: The case of the 2020 U.S. Census, Kenny et al, Science Advances, October 6, 2021

  • Analysis of Demonstration Data for Redistricting and Voting Rights Act Use Cases: Production Settings, United States Census Bureau Webinar, August 10, 2021

  • Empirical Study of Two Aspects of the Topdown Algorithm Output for Redistricting: Reliability & Variability, Tommy Wright and Kyle Irimata, Center for Statistical Research & Methodology, United States Census Bureau, August 5, 2021

• Esri maps highlight changes in US population, State Apportionment following 2020 data release, Geospatial World, April 28, 2021

• 2020 Census data collection is complete

• Check out your community's response rate at this website from the United States Census Bureau.

• Examine results for hard to count populations.

• Modifying 2020 Census Operations

Resources

• Getting to Know Your Neighbor (Lesson plan created by the US Census Bureau)

• Scavenger Hunt: Where is Gina the Geographer? (Lesson plan created by the US Census Bureau)

• The Census Is Going Door-to-Door Now, But That Won't Last Long, Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Matters, August 11, 2020

• A 2020 Census Conversation, Colorado Association of School Boards Connections, March 2020

• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

• United States Census Bureau

  • GeoCoder

• Where are people moving?  Patterns of movement in the United States, Jennifer Bell, April 15, 2020

• Sample Census Form

• Sample Census Invitation Letter

• Mail Contact Strategies Viewer (interactive map)

• 2020 Census

Inquiry

• The Geography Teacher, Special Issue 2020 Census, Volume 16, Issue 3

  • The National Council for Geographic Education’s journal, The Geography Teacher, has compiled a special issue for teaching about the 2020 Census with background on the planning and execution of the census and discussion about uses of census data. Several lesson plans provide an orientation to materials available from the Census Bureau’s Statistics in Schools program, and others offer guidance in using geospatial technology.

  • You may access this journal by using a subscription available through your local public library or a university library, by registering to sample a journal issue for free from Taylor & Francis through this website, or by joining the National Council for Geographic Education for access to both The Geography Teacher and Journal of Geography.

• Data Gems, US Census Bureau

• "Everyone Counts!", 2020 Census Story and Activity Book

• GeoInquiries for Government, Esri, Inc.

  • Access 2020 U.S. Census Data with Esri

• Statistics in Schools, US Census Bureau

• Teaching Demography and Population Change Using Web GIS Tools and Data, Joseph Kerski

  • 10 Ways to teach about population change, demographics, and lifestyles with Esri Web GIS Tools and Data 

• Teaching Students the Importance of the 2020 Census, Social Education January/February 2020, National Council for the Social Studies

Background

• How America's 'places to be' have shifted over the last 100 years

  • Harry Stevens and Nick Kirkpatrick, The Washington Post, May 12, 2021

• Counted: The Takeaway Covers the 2020 Census

• Mapping Hard to Count Communities

  • CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center

• Tricking the Tallyman, Jacqueline Davis, 2014

  • A picture book about the Census for ages 5 through 8

• For Students in Coal Country, the Census Is a Hands-On Civics Lesson

  • Evie Blad, Education Week, November 12, 2019

• The Sum of All 2020 Census Fears

  • Kriston Capps, CityLab, November 5, 2019

• data.census.gov: A new U.S. Census Bureau Resource for Data

  • Joseph Kerski, Spatial Reserves, August 19, 2019

• The Long History of the U.S. Government Asking Americans Whether They Are Citizens

  • Michael Wines, The New York Times, July 12, 2019

• Modernizing the 2020 Census – video from Esri

• The 2020 Census: Mobilizing Everyone – video from Esri

• Trump's Proposed Census Citizenship Question Bucks Centuries of Precedent

  • Hansi Lo Wang, National Public Radio, May 22, 2019

• The Squirrel Census Answers a Question You Weren't Asking

  • Linda Poon, CityLab, June 24, 2019 

• How the Supreme Court's Decision on the Census Could Alter American Politics

  • Michael Wines, The New York Times, April 23, 2019

• Could a citizenship question jeopardize census results?

  • PBS Newshour, April 23, 2019

• The Challenge of America's First Online Census

  • Issie Lapowsky, Wired, February 6, 2019

• The Predictive Postcode: The Geodemographic Classification of British Society

  • Richard Webber and Robert Burrows, 2018

• Fewer Births, More Deaths Result in Lowest U.S. Growth Rate in Generations

  • Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times, December 19, 2018

• Here’s Why an Accurate Census Count is so Important

  • Jim Tankersley and Emily Baumgaertner, The New York Times, March 27, 2018

• With 2020 Census Looming, Worries About Fairness and Accuracy

  • Michael Wines, The New York Times, December 9, 2017