Census Data Shows White Population Shrinking, Diversity Growing

By Teddy Grant Published: August 13, 2021

Census Data Shows White Population Shrinking, Diversity Growing

A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. A half-million census takers head out en mass this week to knock on the doors of households that haven't yet responded to the 2020 census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

By: Teddy Grant

The United States has become more diverse and less white, according to newly released data from the Census Bureau that will be used to redraw political maps across the country.

The data will be used in how the government distributes its $1.5 trillion annual budget throughout the U.S. and could factor in who controls the House in next year’s midterm elections, the Associated Press reported.

The white population fell from 63.7% of the total population in 2010 to 57.8% last year, the lowest on record, according to reports.

“Our analysis of the 2020 Census results show that the U.S. population is much more multiracial, and more racially and ethnically diverse than what we measured in the past,” Nicholas Jones, the director and senior advisor of race and ethnic research and outreach at the Bureau told CNN.

The Black, Hispanic and Asian American populations grew over the last 10 years, data shows. The Black or African American population grew to 46.9 million in the last decade.

“The diversity that we’re seeing in this country is going to be much more pronounced,” William Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, told USA Today.