# Official Population Figures in?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-population-figures-in/58347>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 17, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-population-figures-in/58347 "2001-03-17T05:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-population-figures-in/58347/1 "2001-03-17T05:09:05Z")

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I read in the Chicago newspapers our “Official” results from the 2000 census. It was interestig and I wanted to check out some other cities but when I went to Census

Address:[http://www.census.gov/](http://www.census.gov/)

The homepage I can’t find anything. Am I missing it? If the offical governement webpage doesn’t have the data (I’d like to know the top 100 cities) does anyone else have a webpage??

Since both the Tribune and Sun-Times released figures in their newspapers they must be offical.

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**Author:** ![barker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@barker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barker)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-population-figures-in/58347/2 "2001-03-17T05:26:58Z")

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Being released on a state by state basis. Won’t be completed until April 2. Illinois is done.  
Here is the link [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet](http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet)

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-population-figures-in/58347/3 "2001-03-17T05:32:58Z")

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It looks like the data is actually at [http://factfinder.census.gov/](http://factfinder.census.gov/) .

But it still might be difficult to find what you’re looking for. As you can see from [this schedule](http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/releaseschedule.html), they release the data in stages. First up was redistricting data, so that was in the papers for a couple of days. And they didn’t even release that for all the states. Illinois yes, but not California or Florida or Massachusetts or Maryland. You just got lucky I guess.

So while there is some official data released, there isn’t much beyond what you’ve seen already.