Median age · 2010–2023
Manhattan core median age climbs to 38.4
Cross-checked against ACS B01002 and decennial P-12 series. Confidence 0.95.
U.S. median household income rose to $80,610 in 2023 — the first real-dollar gain in four years.
Our verification desk cross-checked the Census Bureau's September release against the Bureau of Labor Statistics' CPI-U reweighting file before publishing. Both sources agreed within $120 on the median and within 0.3 points on the year-over-year change, well inside our tolerance band for an A-grade release. This brief cleared the desk in 8.2 hours — close to our 9.4-hour median turnaround from federal release to public brief. The figure below carries a dual-source confidence score of 0.97, the highest of any income series in the last twelve briefs. Subscribe below and the next one lands in your inbox on Wednesday.
24-Hour Verified Rail
Four briefs cleared the desk since this time yesterday.
Median turnaround: 9.4 hours from federal release to published brief. Refreshed continuously throughout the day. The most recent four are below; the full archive lives in Briefs.
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Foreign-born population share climbs to 13.9% across the 50 largest metros
Cross-checked against the ACS B05001 series and the BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics file.
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Texas counties added 473,200 residents between July 2022 and July 2023
Verified against state vital-stats files and the IRS county-to-county migration series.
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Uninsured rate falls below 7.7% in 28 states; Texas gap widens
Triangulated against the KFF State Health Facts and ACS B27001 series before publication.
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Median rent in the largest 25 metros crosses $1,500 for the first time
Cross-checked against HUD Fair Market Rent schedules and BLS CPI rent index for shelter.
Methodology, By the Numbers
A verification protocol you can audit, not a promise you have to take on faith.
Every figure we publish passes through the same pipeline: two independent federal sources, a tolerance check, a confidence score, and an editor with a Census Bureau background signing off. The four figures below are the pipeline's own receipts.
- Median desk turnaround
- 9.4hrs
- From federal release to public brief, across all 2024 briefs. About 6× faster than the Census Bureau's AmeriFact portal.
- Federal tables monitored
- 12,000+
- Census Bureau and ACS release tables we ingest, parse, and cross-check against a second source before any figure is published.
- Community profiles live
- 48,200+
- ZCTA, county, and metro demographic profiles, each verified against at least two federal sources. No modeled estimates passed off as official.
- Mean confidence score, 2024
- 0.93/ 1.00
- Across 1,140 published briefs this year. Anything below 0.80 is held back from the wire and re-verified by a second editor.
Profile Archive · Preview
Every ZIP. Every county. Every metro. Verified.
48,200+ community profiles, refreshed within 24 hours of every federal release. Six representative tiles below; the full archive is at Profiles.
Median age · 2010–2023
Age structure · 2023
Maricopa passes 4.6 million residents, fastest-growing large county
Verified against PEP table CO-EST and IRS county migration. Confidence 0.93.
Income by metro · 2023
D.C. metro median household income reaches $112,400
Cross-checked against ACS B19013 and BLS CES regional files. Confidence 0.96.
Vacancy trend · 2019–2023
South Lawndale vacancy rate falls to 6.8% from a 2020 peak
Triangulated against ACS B25002 and HUD vacancy file. Confidence 0.89.
LFPR · 2014–2023
North Carolina LFPR climbs to 61.4%, third straight annual gain
Verified against ACS S2301 and BLS LAUS state file. Confidence 0.94.
Net migration · 2013–2023
Travis County posts net domestic in-migration of 18,400 in 2023
Cross-checked against PEP table CO-EST and IRS county migration. Confidence 0.92.