Census.gov is the official website of the United States Census Bureau, which is in charge of the U.S. Census that tracks the U.S. population and demographics for the purpose of the allocation of government funding, Congressional seats, and electoral votes. Here, you can view all sorts of national censuses on different topics, including population, income, genealogy, and much more. You can also use different tools on the site to get more specific data subsets. Some of these tools can be downloaded. The news section lets you find out all the different updates on the site, and you can find out about their policies on protecting people’s personal information in surveys in the Are You In a Survey section. Additionally, you can find out more about the bureau itself and where its offices are located in the appropriate sections.

Census.gov is a useful tool for finding out any sort of information you might need related to national demographics and censuses. Its wide variety of censuses covers almost anything a person might need. It is also a good site to visit if you are worried about how any information you submitted to a census or survey might be used. The site’s audience is largely educated and affluent, and slightly more female than male, and visitors also often go to family and genealogy websites, career resource websites, and job search websites.