U.S. Census Bureau

2010 U.S. POPULATION NUMBERS

The 2010 Census showed the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538.

The resident population increased 9.7% over the 2000 U.S. resident population of 281,421,906. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves unveiled the official counts at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on December 21st, 2010.

The most populous state was California (37,253,956); the least populous, Wyoming (563,626). The state that gained the most numerically since the 2000 Census was Texas (up 4,293,741 to 25,145,561) and the state that gained the most as a percentage of its 2000 Census count was Nevada (up 35.1% to 2,700,551). Regionally, the South and the West picked up the bulk of the population increase, 14,318,924 and 8,747,621, respectively. But the Northeast and the Midwest also grew: 1,722,862 and 2,534,225.

On May 26, 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau released two reports. One is an extensive study of the Hispanic population while the other details the slowing down of the U.S. population growth rate. The U.S. has a new median age of 37 years, up from 35 in 2000 and 33 in 1990.

The aging nation "isn't a surprise," says U.S. Census director Robert Groves. "It's happening throughout the world in developed societies."

A detailed U.S. Census report focused on the Hispanic population, which at 50.5 million has grown 43% over the past 10 years. That's four times faster than the general U.S. population and more than 40 times faster than non-Hispanic whites, who grew by a measly 1%.

Source: US Census Bureau press releases. For detailed reports and more information about the U.S. Census Bureau, please visit http://www.census.gov/