Today, the U.S. Census announced their plans for release of demographic data captured by the decennial census. In the February and March, Census Redistricting data (P.L. 94-171) Summary File will be released that contains state population counts for race and Hispanic or Latino categories and state housing units by occupancy status (occupied units, vacant units). Details on the release of additional data can be found below (Source: U.S. Census Bureau).
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Dec. 16 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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