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[sen-suhs] / ˈsɛn səs /


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In the case of the Design District Opportunity Zone, the census tract includes the luxurious retail corridor but also the more depressed neighborhoods of Little Haiti and Buena Vista.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Public records, obituaries, and census data build that map so Othram's scientists can establish how different family trees connect.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

With census data showing there are about 73 million children in the U.S. and SpaceX closing at $147.96 Monday, Musk’s pledge would be worth close to $11 billion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Obura led a major reassessment of coral health published in Nature on Thursday that reported a sharp deterioration in reef-building species since the last global census in 2008.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Besides simply counting how many people actually live in America, that census tally also determines how many seats each state gets in Congress and how many electors each state receives in a presidential election.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Researchers believe those lower estimates were influenced by the widespread population losses caused by disease, frontier violence, and systemic oppression before the earliest Australian censuses were conducted.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

A file from the 1960s details the plans for collecting the censuses of population in Northern Ireland in both 1961 and 1966.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

Between the censuses of 2010 and 2020, the number of Americans reporting that they belonged to more than one race jumped by 276%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

At 2.6%, it’s a slight gain over the 2.1% recorded in the 1990, 2000 and 2010 U.S. censuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

His Cange census allowed him to begin building files and to create a baseline against which future censuses could measure how well his system was working.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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