El Paso County’s population in the 2020 census count was 865,657, an 8% increase over the prior census in 2010 that marked the county’s slowest period of growth since the Great Depression, according to data released ...
The El Paso County Commissioners Court and the El Paso City Council are gearing up for the decennial task of redistricting political boundaries based on U.S. Census data — a move that could impact who ...
By David C. Stout When we started the Census 2020 journey more than two years ago, I truly believed the battle for a complete count would be against apathy and against logistics. We have certainly ...
Ashley Lemell has been working with the El Paso Census Bureau office to ensure that El Pasoans experiencing homelessness will be counted in the 2020 census. Lemell, with the El Paso Coalition for the Homeless, ...
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The census has completed its survey, and the results are in. The winners are Texas, Florida, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, and North Carolina – all of whom picked up one congressional seat (except for Texas, which ...