Census bureau releases first of ‘flood of information’ about U.S.

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Just before Christmas, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first of what will become a flood of information resulting from its 2010 count of the nation's population.

The official purpose of the census - counting the nation's residents every 10 years to determine how many representatives each state will have in the U.S. House - was fulfilled.

It found that the United States had 308,745,538 residents on April 1, 2010, an increase of 9.7 percent over the 2000 U.S. resident population of 281,421,906.
It also found that Indiana's population increased 6.6 percent, to 6,483,802, enough for the state to keep its nine seats in the House....