Census Estimates U.S. Population As High As 336 Million Ahead Of Actual Count

Chris Worrell (right) jokes with Teresa Jefferson while applying for a 2020 census job in Boston in February before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Updated at 2:46 p.m. ET

It’s still not clear when the Census Bureau will release the first results from the 2020 census.

But when it does, the bureau estimates the count may show that the U.S. population has grown by as much as 8.7% since the 2010 census, which produced a count of 308.7 million people.