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Minority births outnumber whites for first time

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 3:54pm

The United States has reached a historic tipping point -- with Latino, Asian, mixed-race and African-American births constituting a majority of births for the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.

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Most foreign-born Americans since 1920

Rebecca Trounson Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, May 11, 2012 - 7:10am

The U.S. foreign-born population has risen to its highest level since 1920, with 13 percent of all those living in the nation in 2010 having been born elsewhere, a new report from the Census Bureau shows.

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Religion census: LDS Church fastest-growing group in U.S.

Staff McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Friday, May 4, 2012 - 4:22pm

CHICAGO -- Counted together, independent evangelical congregations comprise one of the largest religious groups in the nation, after Roman Catholics and their evangelical counterparts in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Meanwhile, Mormons rank as the fastest-growing group in the nation, followed by Muslims.

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Utah home to some of fastest-growing places in US

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 11:26am

SALT LAKE CITY -- New U.S. Census Bureau information shows the Provo-Orem, Heber City and St. George areas are among the fastest-growing places in the nation.

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Rachel Denning, Dan Lynch and Brian Speckart browse the recently released 1940s census data at the Find My Past booth during the RootsTech conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City this week. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Pay-as-you-go U.K. company entering U.S. genealogy market

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 8:15am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Evidence of an explosion of interest and technology is the best way to describe the RootsTech genealogy conference, which runs through today at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.

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Utah sees population growth slow in region's sluggish economy

Hope Yen The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 3:21pm

WASHINGTON -- Many states that posted big population gains in the 2010 census are now seeing their decade-long growth fizzle, hurt by a prolonged economic slump that is stretching into larger portions of the South and West.

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Census shows people aren't moving around country as much

Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 2:19pm

SEATTLE -- Waylaid by high unemployment and the housing crisis, Americans over the last year have mostly stayed put, resulting in the lowest rate of state-to-state migration in more than six decades, census estimates show.

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Outrage over redistricting Senate seats in Ogden

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 10:36am

OGDEN -- Redistricting Top of Utah's Republican-held state Senate seats divides Ogden among three senators, a move one Ogden official praises for giving Ogden more power in the Legislature.

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Utah first marriages last longer

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 8:19am

SALT LAKE CITY -- New U.S. Census data show Utah residents' first marriages last longer than those in 48 other states.

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Utah again tops nation for volunteerism

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 9:01am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah is the top state for volunteer service in a new survey by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Counties play musical statehouse chairs; Davis may gain the seat Weber loses

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 11:31pm

Davis County's population increase could mean one more seat in the state House of Representatives, officials say, but Weber County could lose a seat.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Seniors participate in a class called Breakfast for the Brain at Autumn Glow Senior Center in Kaysville last year. New 2010 U.S. Census Bureau figures show that women still outlive men, but the gender gap is narrowing, which changes the social dynamics of the country.

Census: U.S. men narrowing the gender gap of old age

Hope Yen, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 9:28pm

WASHINGTON — Women still outlive men, but the gender gap among U.S. seniors is narrowing.

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Census: Utah getting older, but only slightly

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 1:58pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- In Utah's second largest county, the sprawling suburbs that start about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City are predominantly home to large families with small children.

Almost one in three people are too young to drive a car in Utah County, which has a population of 516,564, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week. The data includes a county-by-county breakdown of age, household makeup and minority populations.

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Census: Utah getting older, but only slightly

Josh Loftin, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 11:17pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- While the baby boom generation is making America's population older, an ongoing baby boom in Utah is helping to maintain the state's status as one of the youngest in the country.

Almost a third of the state's 2.7 million people are under 20 years of age and nearly 20 percent are under the age of 10, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The data includes a county-by-county breakdown of age, household makeup and minority populations.

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Lonely cornfield is median center of U.S. population

Scripps Howard News Service, Sean McDevitt

Last updated Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 3:19pm

PIKE COUNTY, Ind. -- To the casual observer, the median center of U.S. population, as determined by the 2010 census, is a rather unremarkable spot in a Southern Indiana cornfield.

It's a lonely place where the broken stalks remind passers-by that last harvest season is well in the rearview mirror, and that the next planting season is still on the horizon.

But for the U.S. Census Bureau, this location southwest of Petersburg, Ind., is a key point on the map for government geographers, who have kept track of the nation's median population center since 1880. Back in those days, it was in Dayton, Ohio.

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