🏀 Visualizing Population Data, Ancestry, the Economy, and More 📊

Test your knowledge on the hometown population for each tournament team with our College Basketball Population Game.

🔎 Did You Know? 26 college towns had both men’s and women’s Teams in the NCAA Tournament this year. Explore these college towns through Census Bureau profiles that provide not just population counts but social, demographic, and economic data.

Play the Population Bracketology Games

Select and play in each region. In the first game, find the men’s team in the place with the largest local population. In the second game, find the women's teams. You can play as many games as you like. Can you reach the perfect score of 63?

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📌 In Case You Missed It

TOP Summit 2023 Videos

📺 Recordings of TOP Summit 2023 are now available on the Census Bureau's YouTube channel. TOP Summit 2023 included three days of keynotes, lightning talks, interactive sessions, hands-on learning, and technology demos.

🌎 In March, we celebrated St. Patrick's Day with this interactive U.S. map of Irish ancestry. The map shows counties that are 20% or more Irish (dark green) and ranges down to less than 5% (light green).

Hover your mouse over any county to see its name, the state it’s in and the share of its population that is Irish. In the top left corner, select a state to zoom in to for a better view of counties in that state.

📉 The new Index of Economic Activity (IDEA) effectively combines 15 of the primary economic data series produced by the Census Bureau to yield a single time series as a weighted combination. 

It incorporates the most recent values for each component series, including new estimates and revisions to previous estimates released for any of its component series. Values for the index are available from August 2004 to the present and will be updated on each business day moving forward. Historical data of the index are also available for download.

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.