📊🔥🌁 Updates You May Have Missed

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has shifted down to the U.S. this week and blanketed some regions of the country.

Use our My Community Explorer tool to see the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow alerts overlayed with our Community Resilience Estimates, which show where people have high, medium, and low risk of an adverse outcome based on various demographic factors.

Our new report on school enrollment shows college enrollment has continued to decline, with 21.1 million students enrolled in 2021, compared to 21.7 million in 2019 and 23.7 million in 2011.

Explore Census Bureau data on school enrollment at all levels in 2021.

Over a quarter (27.6%) of all U.S. occupied households were one-person households in 2020, up from just 7.7% in 1940, according to recently released 2020 Census data.

The share of people living alone increased every decade from 1940 to 2020. The largest increase happened between 1970 and 1980, when the share increased from 17.6% to 22.7%.

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More people moved across state lines in 2021 than in 2019, many to and from highly populated and neighboring states, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released on June 8.

Nearly 7.9 million people in the United States moved between states in 2021, up from almost 7.4 million in 2019.

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About the Census Bureau

We serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. The Census Bureau is the federal government's largest statistical agency. As the world’s premier statistical agency, we are dedicated to making our nation a better place. Policy-makers, businesses, and the public use our data to make informed decisions.