How to Use census in a Sentence

census

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  • According to the latest census, the racial makeup of the town has changed dramatically in the last 50 years.
  • This enabled the team to create the first highly refined census of black holes growing by consuming the matter around them.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Parramore census tract has the city’s highest rate of people without internet.
    — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Commerce officials said those areas no longer qualify for benefits because of significant growth in those census tracts.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022
  • But the district lines changed under the new map approved by the Legislature last year as part of the reapportionment required after every census.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 8 July 2022
  • In 36% of the census tracts, more than 80% of the residents are Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The census takes place in the early hours of the morning.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • And the rate of rise has steepened, with the daily patient census swelling 52% since the end of June.
    — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • 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 a snapshot of how many people were living on the streets on a single night in a year.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2022
  • 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 | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 15 June 2023
  • The state was awarded an extra House seat after the 2020 census.
    — Jessie Dimartino, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The city receives money each year through the block grant program based on the most recent census.
    — Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 27 July 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
  • Rose’s Cafe and Terzo, the new census numbers come as no surprise.
    — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Sunday’s phone bank is the last weekend before the census’s Sept. 30 deadline.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • For a town with just 307 residents as of the last census, Oak Glen contains multitudes.
    — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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

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