In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook.

Claim that only 1.6% of Americans in 1860 owned slaves erases critical historical context This claim uses a misleading statistic to minimize the impact and prevalence of slavery in America.

Data from the U.S. Census and the American Community Survey show that Ada County and its individual municipalities have seen a shift upward in median age since the turn of the century. What the ...

One is that every single county in Idaho gained population from 2020-24, punching a hole in the assumption that Idaho’s rural counties are dying.

The city of Spartanburg has grown 2 percent since 2020, while every other municipality in Spartanburg County has grown by at least 10 percent. Here's why.

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 along party lines to approve Map 7, finalizing new precinct boundaries after a two-month redistricting process.

The Clinton County Emergency Management Agency recently shared how local communities rank in population size compared to the 1,259 cities and villages across Ohio.

Sangamon County is grappling with a troubling trend: the loss of its younger population.

Once a rural corner of the state, this South Carolina county is now among the fastest growing in the nation, according to the latest Census data.

The battle over redistricting maps based on the last U.S. Census is still underway in Georgia years after the headcount.

Stark County grew by 1,039 people from 2023 to 2024, a 0.3% increase, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Stark is the eighth largest county in Ohio.

Such has been the uniform growth of the United States for seventy years past, that the aggregate result of the census of 1860, in regard to population, is no mystery.