Here's What You May Have Missed on Social Media

We're bringing you some of the most popular, timely, and notable posts from across the Census Bureau’s social media channels. Check out what you may have missed.

Recently released 2018-2022 American Community Survey estimates show that 78.3% of the nation age 5 and older spoke only English at home.

Among those that spoke a language other than English, Spanish (61.1%), Chinese (5.1%), and Tagalog (2.5%) were the three most spoken languages at home.

In this blog, Census Bureau Director Robert Santos discusses how we are increasing engagement with American Indian and Alaska Native communities and mitigating unique barriers to tribal access to Census Bureau data and resources.

The 2023 Q4 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) release is now available.

QWI provide local labor market statistics by industry, worker demographics, firm age and size.

In case you missed it: We are cutting back on the number of survey requests businesses may receive.

Read Census Bureau Deputy Director Dr. Ron Jarmin’s blog about our new Annual Integrated Economic Survey – a consolidation of seven of our annual business surveys into a single survey.

America Counts: U.S. Poverty Rate Varies by Age Groups

In 2022, the child poverty rate was 16.3%, 3.7 percentage points higher than the overall rate. The poverty rate among those age 65 and over was 10.9%, 1.6 percentage points lower than the overall rate.

Read more about how poverty rates vary by age groups.

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Use our new interactive data visualization to explore social vulnerability and equity in your community.

Based on our CRE for Equity data tool, this new data viz expands upon our Community Resilience Estimates to measure equity in addition to social vulnerability.

How vulnerable is your neighborhood?

In 2021, the U.S. national earnings wage gap by sex was $11,243 (+/-$210).

What is the gender pay gap in your state? 💵

Find out with our data visualization.

American Community Survey data released on December 7 show that the poverty rate significantly decreased in more than one-third of U.S. counties during the 2018-2022 period. Of the 1,042 counties that had lower poverty rates, 466 were in the South.

December 10th was the 206th anniversary of Mississippi’s statehood. 🎂

Three other states also celebrated their statehood anniversaries recently:

Indiana (12/11)

Pennsylvania (12/12)

Alabama (12/14)

Explore 2020 Census data on these states’ populations with our America Counts state profiles.

Check out our video tutorial to learn how to access 2020 Census data from the Application Programming Interface (API) to find individual data points from the Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A.

On December 7, we looked back on all that was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Learn more about National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day and explore related Census Bureau data with Stats for Stories.

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