Ohio Census

Tracking Ohio's population and poverty levels

It's your duty and, the census bureau hopes, your desire to cooperate with the 2010 census. Questions? We have answers. Full story »

Questionnaires will begin to arrive in mailboxes Monday, commencing the 2010 Census, which could prove to be a grim headcount for Northeast Ohio. Full story »

Much is riding on getting an accurate count -- from government funding to community reputation. Full story »

Hard times have created a new demographic group--doubled-up households. Some fear the coming census could overlook people who lost their homes and are living with friends or relatives. Full story »

The Census 2010 marketing campaign has reached Northeast Ohio, where many are slow to cooperate with the national head count.  Full story »

Stepping up efforts to fill more than 3,000 temporary positions in Cuyahoga County, the Census Bureau hosts a job fair from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday in Cleveland. Full story »

Ohio lawmakers are squabbling over a Republican attempt to ban statewide elected officials from appearing in taxpayer-funded ads during an election year. Full story »

Yes, you are poorer. A Plain Dealer examination of census data reveals that incomes plunged in Northeast Ohio at a rate double the national average.  Full story »

The 2010 Census likely will bear grim news for Cleveland, which is on track to lose more people this decade than any other major American city. Older Cleveland suburbs are also in sharp decline. Experts say the region needs to aggressively recruit job-creating immigrants. Full story »

CLEVELAND -- There's Babe the Blue Ox, Happy Ox, Sacred Cow and Foxy Ox from Fort Knox. Just about every personality of Ox you might imagine -- 21 in all -- will migrate into Cleveland's Asian-flavored neighborhood beginning today. The fiberglass beasts, customized and painted by local artists, are part of a celebration of the Chinese Year of the Ox,... Full story »

Save for the handheld computers, they might look like your neighbors out for a stroll. But the 1,000 U.S. Census workers deployed throughout Northeast Ohio this week are documenting every address in the region. Next April, the Census Bureau will use the data to mail or hand-deliver questionnaires to each household. The 2010 census aims to count each American once,... Full story »

Ohio is again the only state in America with two big cities ranked among the nation's poorest, indicating that the state's principal cities continue to struggle in the new economy. According to new data released this morning by the U.S. Census Bureau, 29.5 percent of the people in Cleveland lived in poverty in 2007, ranking the city the second poorest... Full story »

Cleveland was ranked as the nation's fourth poorest big city Tuesday after spending two of the last three years at the top of the U.S. Census Bureau's list. Cleveland was behind Detroit, Buffalo, N.Y., and Cincinnati, which jumped from No. 8 on last year's list, according to data from the American Community Survey. The rankings reflect the number of people... Full story »

The news from the U.S. Census Bureau is not good for Cleveland, population 444,000, and falling. The city lost nearly 7 percent of its people from 2000 to 2006 and now ranks as America's 40th-largest city. That's down from 33rd and a world away from the 1920s, when Cleveland was the nation's fifth-largest city. Among major American cities, only New... Full story »