📊 Updates You May Have Missed

Explore new 2020 Census population counts and sex-by-age statistics from the 2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A.

🔎 Did You Know? The recent 2020 Census data release provides population counts of nearly 1,500 race and ethnicity groups and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages.

More than 350 million detailed responses to the race and ethnicity questions were collected in the 2020 Census — six times more than in the 2010 Census due to improvements to the race and Hispanic or Latino origin questions design, data processing, and coding procedures.

📅 Save the Date: 9/25 Post-Release Webinar: Finding 2020 Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A Data on data.census.gov

The Census Bureau recently released 2020 Census population counts and sex-by-age statistics for 300 detailed race and ethnic groups, as well as 1,187 detailed American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribes and villages.

These data come from the 2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A (Detailed DHC-A). Previously, the Census Bureau released 2020 Census data on the Hispanic or Latino population and major race groups such as White, Black or African American, Asian, etc.

This release adds information on detailed groups within those major categories such as German, Lebanese, Jamaican, Chinese, Native Hawaiian and Mexican — and on AIAN tribes and villages like the Navajo Nation. The release includes information about more than 200 detailed race and ethnic groups not tabulated from previous censuses.

En español: La Oficina del Censo publica datos del Censo del 2020 correspondientes a cerca de 1,500 grupos raciales y étnicos, tribus y aldeas detallados 

For The Media and Stakeholders: 

• Press Kit: Pre-Release Webinar Recording + 2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A Press Kit

• Blog: Data Quality for Detailed Race and Ethnicity Groups and American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and Villages in the 2020 Census

Use our new data visualization to explore the size and rankings of detailed race and ethnicity groups for the nation, your state, and your county using new 2020 Census data.

More Resources for Data Users:

• Data Gem Video: How to Find Population Counts for Detailed Race and Hispanic Origin Groups
• Video Tutorial: Accessing 2020 Census Detailed DHC-A Data on data.census.gov

• data.census.gov: More 2020 Census Data Video Tutorials

📌 ICYMI: America Counts Stories

In case you missed it, here are some America Counts stories related to the recent 2020 Census data release.

Asian Indian Was The Largest Asian Alone Population Group in 2020

Detailed Look at Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Groups

Newly released results from the 2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A show that the populations of nearly all the 31 detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) groups grew over the past decade.

3.5 Million Reported Middle Eastern and North African Descent in 2020

Lebanese, Iranian and Egyptian populations represented nearly half of the 3.5 million who reported Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent in the 2020 Census — the first census to specifically solicit MENA responses.

📅 Save the Date: More America Counts stories about 2020 Census data will be released in the coming days and weeks.

• September 26: America Counts story on the Hispanic or Latino Origin Population
• October 3: America Counts story on the American Indian and Alaska Native Population
• October 10: America Counts story on the White Population
• October 17: America Counts story on the Black or African American Population  
• October 24: America Counts story on the Some Other Race Population

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