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D’Vera Cohn is a senior writer and editor at Pew Research Center. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census. Cohn was a Washington Post reporter

for 21 years, mainly writing about demographics, and was the newspaper’s lead reporter for the 2000 census. Before joining Pew Research Center, she served as a consultant and freelance

writer for the Brookings Institution and Population Reference Bureau. Cohn is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and is a former Nieman Fellow. She is an author of studies on the marriage and

birth rates in the United States, migration between the U.S. and Mexico, and U.S. population projections. Cohn manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken

at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print and broadcast media.

An estimated 940,000 immigrants became U.S. citizens during the 2022 fiscal year. That annual total would be the third-highest on record.

The bureau is considering counting most Americans using Social Security data, IRS files and other administrative records.

The national total in the 2020 census was largely accurate, but the Census Bureau has estimated miscounts for some states and demographic groups.

The number of immigrants receiving green cards as new lawful U.S. permanent residents bounced back last year to pre-pandemic levels.

Nearly four-in-ten men ages 25 to 29 now live with older relatives.

The U.S. Hispanic population reached 62.1 million in 2020, an increase of 23% over the previous decade.

Americans relocated less during the COVID-19 outbreak, moving from one residence to another in 2020 at the lowest rate in more than 70 years.

The 2020 census counted 126.8 million occupied households, representing 9% growth over the 116.7 million households counted in the 2010 census.

About half of Americans see their identity reflected very well in the census’s race and ethnicity questions.

The unauthorized immigrant population’s size and composition has ebbed and flowed significantly over the past 30 years.