The US Census Bureau thread

[Yuri]

I find unfair such criticisms on US Census Bureau. They're pretty much the only office that even try to make such granular population estimates and they're very good on it. Most offices simply reproduce what happened on the previous intercensus period, apply some reducer/accelerator and that's it.

And it's even more challenging as the US has by far the most mobile population in the world. People move around as often as they change underwear. Estimates for cities/counties in such scenario must be very hard and the US Census Bureau seems to be up to the task.