Population growth slowed in a majority of U.S. counties between July 2024 and July 2025, with metro areas experiencing slower growth and declining areas seeing accelerated losses. These shifts were ...

Less immigration and the aging population has worsened county-wide worker shortages.

A nationwide wave of international immigration in 2024 staunched years of population declines in Louisiana, according to newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. That increase, which can ...

Louisiana’s population ticked slightly higher last year, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, suggesting that population losses from recent years have waned even as the state remains ...