Every 10 years since 1790, the federal government of the United States conducts the U.S. census of the country's population, which includes a head count of the people living in the country, in addition to a distribution breakdown of where those people live. This is important because the U.S. Constitution created the census in order to figure out how many seats in the House of Representatives — as well as how much federal funding — each state will get.
The census asks questions about every member of each household in America, including their sex, age, race and relationship to each other. Here are eight takeaways from the 2020 U.S. census:
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