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The St. Cloud City Council will take a look at re-drawing its ward boundaries now that the state and federal redistricting has been completed. Governments are required to go through the redistricting process every time a new census is completed.

The Census Bureau is reporting that 15 percent of Minnesota's children, or about 190,000 of them, were living in poverty last year. That's a significant increase from the 14 percent who were living in poverty in 2009, but Minnesota's child poverty rate remains among the lowest in the nation.

A new Census Bureau estimate raises the number of people of Somali ancestry in Minnesota to more than 32,000. That means the state is still home to the largest Somali population in the United States.

Minnesota doesn't permit same-sex couples to marry, but new figures from the Census Bureau shows it has nearly as many married same-sex couples as Iowa, where the unions are legal.

As a vote to define marriage in the state constitution gets closer, the U.S. Census Bureau is preparing to release new estimates on the number of same-sex couples in Minnesota and other states.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau finds that the poverty rate inched up in Minnesota while incomes fell. The data from the American Community Survey released Thursday shows that poverty rate increased from 11 percent in 2009 to 11.6 percent last year.

New census figures show the home ownership rate for black Minnesotans has dropped. According to 2010 U.S. census data released this week, the rate fell to 25 percent last year compared to 32 percent a decade earlier.

New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show a surge in the number of same-sex households in Minnesota. The census found gay couples living together in each of Minnesota's 87 counties.

In just a few lines on a spreadsheet, the latest census figures show how Minnesota could become more diverse in the coming decades. Data released Wednesday shows the median age for white people in the state is 40 while the median age for Asians is 27, blacks is 26 and Hispanics is 23.5.

New census figures indicate the "seven year" itch persists. 2009 figures show couples who break up typically separate after seven years of marriage, and then divorce a year later.