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• Colo. draws 31,000 residents from other states

  January 15, 2012 6:22 PM

  DENVER (AP) - The Census Bureau says Colorado had a net gain of more than 31,000 people moving to the state from elsewhere in the U.S. last year, fifth-highest in the nation. The Denver Post reported Sunday that Colorado was the most popular state among 25- to 44-year-olds who moved.... more »

• Revised govt formula shows new poverty high: 49.1M

  November 7, 2011 11:25 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - New census estimates show the number of Americans living in poverty is higher than previously known - reaching a new level of 49.1 million, or 16 percent. The numbers released Monday are a new supplemental poverty measure aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty of... more »

• Census: 7th year is bad year for marriages

  May 18, 2011 3:51 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - New census figures show the "seven-year" itch persists - couples who break up typically separate upon seven years of marriage, and divorce a year later. The 2009 data released Wednesday also show U.S. divorces are leveling off after decades of increases. The census report found that... more »

• Number of poor grows in U.S.

  January 5, 2011 3:12 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of poor people in the U.S. is millions higher than previously known, with one in 6 Americans - many of them 65 and older - struggling in poverty due to rising medical care and other costs. Preliminary census figures released Wednesday show that government... more »

• Lawmakers hope to avoid redistricting fiasco

  December 30, 2010 3:38 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado's legislative leaders are hoping to avoid another redistricting fiasco like the one 10 years ago that ended up in court. On Thursday, they appointed a 10-member legislative committee of five Democrats and five Republicans to tour the state and get opinions from voters on the... more »

• Census expected to show population growth has slowed

  December 20, 2010 4:57 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The closely watched 2010 census will likely show America's once-torrid population growth dropping to the lowest level since possibly the Great Depression. In Congress, the steady migration to the South and West will be a boon to Republicans with GOP-leaning states such as Texas picking up new... more »

• Census: More immigrants moving to Longmont

  October 11, 2010 8:13 AM

  New Census data shows that Longmont has seen one of the largest increases in the number of foreign-born residents in Colorado during the last decade. The recently released figures from the American Community Survey shows that Longmont's foreign-born population increased from 10.6 percent in 2000 to 17.1 percent last... more »

• El Paso County population on the rise

  September 14, 2010 12:28 AM

  New census estimates show around 400,000 people are now living in Colorado Springs, with an additional 604,000 in the surrounding El Paso County. "It's about a 10% increase from 2000 for Colorado Springs, and about a 16-17% increase for El Paso County." explains Deborah Muehleisen of the Census Bureau. Some... more »

• Mixed review

  July 2, 2010 11:39 PM

  Recently released national labor statistics show the unemployment rate dropped in June from 9.7% to 9.5%, but the number of jobs dropped as well. At the Pikes Peak Workforce Center, employees can only judge by what they've seen, and that's been fewer faces coming in for help. "That... more »

• Payrolls drop by 125K, jobless rate falls

  July 2, 2010 8:55 AM

  A wave of census layoffs cut the nation's payrolls in June for the first time in six months, while private employers added a modest number of jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, its lowest level in almost a year. The Labor Department says employers cut 125,000 jobs last... more »

• Census: Multiracial US becoming even more diverse

  June 10, 2010 9:53 AM

  The nation's minority population is steadily rising and now makes up 35 percent of the U.S., boosted by a surge in Hispanic births and more Americans who describe themselves as multiracial. New Census estimates for 2009 show minorities added 2.5 percent, or 107.2 million people. The white population remained... more »

• Interracial marriage slows in US

  May 26, 2010 8:40 AM

  The latest census figures show that the growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites. The number of interracial marriages has risen 20 percent since 2000 to about 4.5 million. While still growing, that number... more »

• Census: Americans are on the move

  May 10, 2010 9:32 AM

  Americans are changing addresses again--but they're not going very far. Census figures released Monday show that 12.5 percent of the U.S. population, or 37.1 million people, moved to a new home last year. That's up from a 60-year low of 11.9 percent, or 35.2 million, in 2008. The... more »

• U.S. economy added 290,000 jobs in April

  May 7, 2010 9:37 AM

  Employers stepped up job creation in April, expanding payrolls by 290,000, the most in four years. The jobless rate rose to 9.9 percent as people streamed back into the market looking for work. The government says the hiring of 66,000 temporary government workers to conduct the census helped... more »

• Battle over redistricting begins

  April 22, 2010 2:56 PM

  Redistricting--the redrawing of boundaries for political races--happens after each census. And in Colorado, the battle is off to a heated start. Republicans are opposing an attempt by Democrats to strip out limits that were placed on the role of the courts after a Denver District Court judge drew congressional... more »

• Census: Women equal to men in advanced degrees

  April 20, 2010 12:28 PM

  Women are now just as likely than men to have completed college and are virtually equal in earning advanced degrees. So says the Census Bureau, highlighting an accelerating trend of educational gains for women that has helped shield them from recent job losses. The new figures show that about 29... more »

• Local census offices surpass national average

  April 12, 2010 2:15 PM

  Colorado Springs reached a 68 percent participation rate on April 9, surpassing the State of Colorado which had a percentage rate of 64 percent. This response also puts it ahead of the national participation rate for that day of 65 percent. Pueblo also reached 65 percent. The Census Bureau... more »

• Census: Minority areas, cities lagging in response

  April 12, 2010 11:48 AM

  With five days left for people to mail their census forms, Census Bureau director Robert Groves is urging those in big cities and border regions to step up the response to avoid personal visits by census takers. So far, about 65 percent have completed the 10-question form. The Midwest leads... more »

• P.O. Box users having Census problems

  April 6, 2010 12:22 AM

  Eddie Kinney has lived in Palmer Lake for nearly 30 years. During his daily stop at the post office he realized something was missing. "I checked with the post office about 3 weeks ago and they told me that the Census forms had come in but they had to send... more »

• Temporary census jobs boost employment

  April 2, 2010 9:11 AM

  The nation's economy created the largest number of jobs last month since the recession began, bolstered by thousands of temporary census jobs. The unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third straight month. The Labor Department said employers added 162,000 jobs in March, the most in three years... more »

• Congress banning misleading census mailings

  March 27, 2010 1:08 PM

  Congress has banned misleading mailings that appear to be from the Census Bureau. Republican groups recently sent out fundraising letters that appeared to be Census forms. The Senate approved by unanimous consent a bill that requires mailings marked "census" to state the name and address of the sender and to... more »

• Rock dropped from I-25 overpass

  March 22, 2010 6:51 PM

  A Walsenburg woman reported Monday afternoon someone dropped a rock on her car from an overpass, cracking her windshield. Kelly Mallery-Coulter said she was driving around 75 miles an hour when she saw three men on an overpass at mile marker 49. When she came out the other side... more »

• House bans misleading census mailings

  March 10, 2010 2:54 PM

  The House has passed legislation that would ban misleading mailings designed to appear they're from the Census Bureau. The 416-0 vote Wednesday follows criticism that Republican groups were sending fundraising letters using the census name. Under the bill, mailings marked "census" will be required to state the name... more »

• One-person towns to Census: Count me in

  March 7, 2010 9:26 AM

  The founding fathers must have chuckled at the impossibility of the job when they etched it into the Constitution: Count every man, woman and child along every back road and big-city avenue in the entire country. From Key West to Nome, today's Americans will largely get the founders' joke... more »

• Americans required to fill out Census surveys

  February 1, 2010 8:20 PM

  This spring the U.S. Census will begin going door to door to count every American, but you may also be required to fill out a survey you receive in the mail. The census says it conducts a number of monthly surveys. They're sent out to hundreds of thousands of Americans... more »

• U.S. Census looking to hire

  December 9, 2009 7:46 PM

  The U.S. Census Bureau is looking to hire. The Pueblo office says it wants to hire more than 1,000 census takers in 2010. The mostly part-time workers will collect information in Pueblo County and points south and east. "The majority of the positions that we need to fill are people... more »

• Feds probe US Census worker hanging in Kentucky

  September 24, 2009 10:09 AM

  The Census Bureau has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, Kentucky, where one of its workers was found hanged with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest. The FBI is investigating whether anti-government sentiment played a roll in the death of Bill Sparkman. Attacking a federal worker during or... more »