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By Reid Wilson - 04/26/21 08:58 AM EDT   The U.S. Census Bureau will release the first results of its decennial survey on Monday after a decade of explosive growth in Sun Belt states that will shift power in the House of Representatives. Acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin will announce state population counts used to apportion House seats on Monday afternoon, the Census Bureau said early Monday. Those results are likely to show a dramatic shift in population, as more Americans leave northern Rust Belt states in favor of sunnier climes where economic opportunity is more plentiful. Y...

Census finds 4 million new Texans, enough for 2 extra US House seats, though we expected more Trump policies and pandemic may have led to undercount. With 29.2M, Texas added more people than live in 23 other states. The Census Bureau's apportionment results are being released Monday.(Justin Sullivan / TNS) Updated at 3:50 p.m. WASHINGTON – Texas gained a modest two congressional seats in the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau announced Monday, making it the big winner nationwide but dashing expectations that torrid growth in the last decade would yield at least three more seats. Texas’ popul...

Alabama will hold onto its seven congressional seats in next year’s election, narrowly avoiding the loss of a district that could have complicated reapportionment efforts and set off a scramble among the state’s U.S. House delegation. The state’s stagnant population growth appeared to put the state at risk of losing a voice in Congress. But the results of the 2020 U.S. Census, announced on Monday, showed that Alabama grew faster than previously estimated and held off a doomsday scenario for at least another decade.  Nyesha Black, director of socioeconomic analysis and demographics for ...

South Carolina grew by 10.7%, or 493,061 people, in the past decade, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released today. The state has a population of 5,118,425 people, a rise from the last full Census count in 2010 of 4,625,364 people. South Carolina could get a greater proportion of federal money if the state grows relative to others when the state population figures from U.S. Census Bureau figures are released today. North Carolina gained a seat in Congress, along with two seats for Texas and one seat went to Oregon, Montana, Colorado and Florida.  California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio...

Watch live: Census Bureau reveals 1st results from 2020 population count By (0) A pamphlet with 2020 Census information is seen at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Calif., on August 27, 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo A census taker holds a pamphlet with 2020 Census information at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Calif., on August 27, 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham testifies before the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee about the 2020 rollout at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., o...