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“The data we are releasing today meet our high data quality standards, and I am proud to present them to the American public.” – Acting Director Dr. Ron Jarmin

“This past decade’s 7.4% population increase was lower than the previous decade’s 9.7% increase and was, in fact, the second lowest percent increase ever. Only the 1930s had slower growth.” – Marc Perry, Senior Demographer, Population Division

The U.S. population continues to be very unevenly distributed across the land area, with high population densities in the Northeast Corridor from Boston to Washington, DC, in large metropolitan areas nationwide, and in parts of Puerto Rico.

52% of all counties have smaller populations in 2020 than in 2010.

Metro areas are prominent this decade as the locations of population growth amidst otherwise widespread population decline.

The Villages, FL was the country’s fastest growing metro area this decade, up 39% from 2010.

By 2020 the proportion of the U.S. population in metro areas increased to 86.3%, while it decreased in both micro areas and in areas outside of metro and micro areas.

The 10 largest cities all grew this past decade, and 8 of the 10 grew at a faster rate this decade compared to the last.

For the first time ever in a decennial census, all ten of the largest cities in the United States now have more than 1 million people.

The cities with the largest population gains this decade were New York, up more than 600,000, and Houston, up just over 200,000.

All 10 of the fastest-growing cities grew by at least 44 percent, and the fastest-growing one, Buckeye, Arizona, a western suburb of Phoenix, was up nearly 80 percent this decade to reach over 91,000 in population.

“The 2020 Census illuminates the racial and ethnic composition of the United States.” - Nicholas Jones, Director of Race Ethnicity Research and Outreach, Population Division

The Hispanic or Latino population numbered 62.1 million in 2020.

In the #2020Census, for all race groups, their “in combination” multiracial populations accounted for most of the overall changes in each racial category.

Here are the largest Multiracial combinations in 2020.

Another way to understand the results from the #2020Census is to see how all racial and ethnic groups are distributed across the country to inform our understanding of diversity.

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In 2020, at the national level, there was a 61.1% chance that two people chosen at random were from different race and ethnicity groups.

Hawaii had the highest DI at 76.0%, followed by California with 69.7%, and Nevada with 68.8%.

New #2020Census results show geographic distributions and patterns in racial and ethnic diversity across the country.

“Our analysis of the 2020 Census results show that the U.S. population is much more multiracial and more racially and ethnically diverse than what we measured in the past.” – Nicholas Jones, Director of Race Ethnicity Research and Outreach

Thank you for following along with us! Check out our #AmericaCounts stories to explore more analysis of the first local level results from the #2020Census: census.gov/programs-surve…