(AP) - The first batch of once-every-decade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a United States that is growing less quickly but still seeing its population
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People walk on the street, Monday, April 26, 2021 in New York. The once-a-decade head count of the United States shows where the population grew during the past 10 years and where it shrank. New York will lose one seat in Congress as a result of national population shifts, according to census data released Monday.
Mark Lennihan, Associated Press
Utah won the census jackpot this week. Unfortunately, being the fastest-growing state in the nation over the last decade doesn’t get you much immediate reward in this case, not even a new seat in Congress.
It does, however, get you a great economy. The unemployment rate was 2.9% in March, even though the pandemic hasn’t officially ended yet. If you’ve tried to buy a house lately, you understand what demand can do when supply is low. If you already own a house, you understand how a growing economy can build personal wealth without much effort.
What s behind the growth slump? Takeaways from census data
NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
April 26, 2021
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In this image from video provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau Ron Jarmin speaks as a graphic showing the U.S. population as of April 1, 2020, is displayed during a virtual news conference Monday, April 26, 2021. The Census Bureau is releasing the first data from its 2020 headcount. (U.S. Census Bureau via AP)AP
The first batch of once-every-decade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a United States that is growing less quickly and but still seeing its population shift to the South and West.
MORE SLUGGISH GROWTH AHEAD?
The U.S. population grew to 331 million, a 7.4% growth rate from the last time the Census Bureau counted every person in the country, in 2010. Those may sound like big numbers, but it’s actually the second slowest rate of population growth the census has ever recorded, just behind the 7.3% growth in the 1930s.
That decade’s slowed growth was rooted in the Great Depression. Our past decade’s sluggish rate had similar beginnings in the long shadow of the Great Recession. The drawn-out recovery saw many young adults struggling to enter the job market, delaying marriage and starting a family. That dealt a blow to the nation’s birthrate. Then the pandemic hit last year and made matters worse.
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The count had the lowest ten-year increase since the 1930s during the Depression.
The first set of data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau every decade shows lower population growth In the United States since the count began in 1790 than at any other time, except in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
Meanwhile, new data from the 2010s showed the U.S. population shifting to the South and the West.
The data released on Monday was pretty basic; although they had details of the national and state population figures and how states affect their representation in Congress, it had some surprises and some consequent trends.