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New Census Data Shows That Asians Have Overtaken Whites as Largest Bay Area Racial Group

Newly released demographic data from the 2020 Census — which is, albeit, three pandemic years out of date already — shows that Asians now represent a plurality of Bay Area residents, overtaking white people for the first time as the largest racial group in the region.

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Census: Santa Cruz Grew Quickly, SF Shrank Less Quickly In Second Year of Pandemic; Sun Belt Cities Saw Most Growth

Santa Cruz, California was the second-fastest-growing city in the country between July 2021 and July 2022, according to detailed estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau. And in that second year of the pandemic, San Francisco fell off the list of fastest-shrinking cities.

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Census Finds SF Population Was Nearly Flat In Second Year of Pandemic

The great San Francisco exodus of 2020 was, as observed by many of us, followed by a slow returning of humans in mid-2021 and 2022. And now, some official numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, albeit estimates, suggest that the city's population about leveled off by last summer.

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New Census Data Finds Over One Million Same-Sex Couple Households In U.S.

The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, puts the number of same-sex couple households over one million for the first time. But since the census still doesn't ask the sexual-orientation question, so we still don't have hard numbers on LGBTQ people who aren't coupled.

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SF's Pandemic Exodus Was Mostly White Twentysomethings

As you probably could have guessed without the census data to back it up, most of the people who fled San Francisco almost immediately after the pandemic began in 2020 were white people in their 20s.

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Census Confirms the Size of SF's 2020 Pandemic Exodus: 6.3% or 55,000 People

San Francisco's one-year population decline between 2020 and 2021 now has an estimated figure from the U.S. Census Bureau to attach to it. And it's considerable!

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Census Bureau Says That Black and Brown People Were Undercounted In 2020 Census, Some Whites Double-Counted

The U.S. Census Bureau says that while the overall 2020 Census population number published last year — 323.2 million — is probably close to accurate, other numbers published last year represent significant undercounts of minority populations.

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Census Data Release Shows US and California Growing More Diverse — and San Francisco Gained 90,000 People

The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday released a new batch of data from the 2020 Census to be used for the purposes of congressional redistricting, and it contains the first data on race and ethnicity to be released so far.

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Federal Judge In San Jose Rules Census Count Must Continue

A U.S. district judge issued a nationwide injunction Thursday night that requires the Census Bureau to return to its original schedule of enumeration of the population through October 31.

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Facebook Says It Will Fight Disinformation About the 2020 Census

It's not only an election year next year, it's also a census year, and Facebook is saying that it plans to treat the census like a high-profile election — only in this case it will actually take down ads that spread lies.

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