MyTwoCensus
Vol. VIII · No. 42 · Verified Census & ACS Intelligence
Every Census Bureau and ACS release we have cross-checked since 2017, indexed by release type and date. Each entry carries two federal sources, a confidence score, and a published figure you can quote. Bookmark this page; journalists, policy shops, and city desks return to it weekly.
A Census Bureau release arrives. We do not publish it. We pull a second federal source — usually the Bureau's own companion table, an ACS comparison, or a TIGER/Line geographic cross-check — and we only file the brief when both numbers agree to within 0.3 percentage points. The confidence score on every brief is the residue of that comparison.
Browse the most recent verified briefs →Cross-checked against two Census Bureau tables; second-source agreement 0.3 pp. Published 8.7 hours after federal release.
$74,580 +2.1% vs. 2018–2022
Cross-checked against ACS B19013 and the Census Bureau's income inequality tables. Highest county: Loudoun, VA, $162,100. Lowest: Holmes, MS, $28,210.
13 states statistically significant
Cross-checked against the Post-Enumeration Survey and the Census Bureau's Demographic Analysis benchmark. Six states showed net undercounts; seven showed net overcounts.
13.9% highest since 1910
Cross-checked against the Current Population Survey ASEC supplement and the ACS B05001 series. Confidence scored slightly lower due to CPS sampling variance on the comparison side.
−0.4% first full-year decline since 2010
Cross-checked against IRS county-to-county migration data and the Census Bureau's components-of-change release. Sun Belt metros led losses; Northeast led gains.
The confidence score you see on each brief is not a vibe. It is the output of a written protocol. When a Census Bureau release lands, our editors pull a second federal source for the same figure — usually a companion release, an ACS comparison, or a TIGER/Line geographic cross-check — and we only file the brief when the two sources agree to within 0.3 percentage points.
If the two sources disagree by more than 0.3 pp, we publish a methodology note explaining the gap. We do not publish a confident number we cannot defend. The median turnaround from federal release to published brief is 9.4 hours — about six times faster than the Census Bureau's own AmeriFact portal — because the verification step is parallel, not serial.
Modeled and estimated figures are labeled modeled. They never carry the same confidence score as a cross-checked federal release, and they never appear in the archive grid without that label.
— The MyTwoCensus editorial desk
One verified federal release, one short brief, two source citations. 187,000 journalists, policy researchers, and local-government analysts already read it. Read by 41 of the top 50 U.S. metropolitan daily newspapers.