How to Use census in a Sentence

census

noun

• According to the latest census, the racial makeup of the town has changed dramatically in the last 50 years.
• The census doesn’t distinguish between residents who are in the U.S. legally and those who aren’t.
  — Paul Overberg, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• For a town with just 307 residents as of the last census, Oak Glen contains multitudes.
  — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• While Black women and girls make up about 7% of the U.S. population, according to census data.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2024
• The district was undergoing changes even before being redrawn after the 2020 census.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
• During a recent trip, scientists dropped a net and containers off the stern of a research vessel to collect plankton and seawater, followed by taking a census of seabirds and marine mammals in the same area.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2022
• This was the moment when for the first time the US census declared salaried, largely nonunion, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar industrial workers.
  — Meg Jacobs, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
• The census takes place in the early hours of the morning.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• Which races are included in the census, and how, has changed over time.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
• But the current fight stems from lawsuits filed to oppose the map drawn after the 2020 census.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 16 July 2023
• The census is based on data from the Wealth-X database, the world’s largest collection of research on the wealthy.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• In such cases, often the first time a name is listed in public records is the census of 1870.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2023
• The state was awarded an extra House seat after the 2020 census.
  — Jessie Dimartino, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2022
• The 1920 census marked the first time that more people in the United States lived in urban areas than rural ones.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• Other research groups working on the brain cell census backed this up.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Last year the median new-home size fell to its lowest point in more than a decade, census data shows.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Last year the median new-home size fell to its lowest point in more than a decade, census data shows.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
• The census, conducted every five years, will take place on March 7.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• Further, state data show the number has dropped more since the census data was recorded.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2024
• This month’s class will focus on the on the U.S. census as a source for ancestor discoveries.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Last year, on average, 26 more people moved away per day from Hawaii than moved in, according to the census.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• At present, the Black population makes up 5.4% of Arizona’s census.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• For the first time, Catholics outnumbered Protestants in Northern Ireland in last year's census.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• The South Carolina case is one of several that have been in the courts since the 2020 census caused many congressional maps to be redrawn.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 29 May 2024
• That's enough fentanyl to kill the entire city of Houston, the country's fourth-largest city, three times over, according to the latest U.S. census data.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2022
• Nearly two-thirds of homes in L.A. are renter-occupied, per U.S. census data.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Nearly half the city’s residents are nonwhite, according to the census, and the median age is 32.
  — Adrienne Broaddus, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• In 2000 the Catalan government asked whether Senar and his team could undertake a formal census.
  — Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• In the United States, according to a census conducted in 2018, there are seven eel farms—two fewer than there are frog farms.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The redistricting process typically occurs once per decade, following the release of U.S. census data.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024