Census Bureau News: Week of December 15, 2025

Census Bureau Upcoming and Recently Released Products

The U.S. Census Bureau is updating its event calendar due to the recent lapse in federal funding. We will provide the updated release schedule as soon as it becomes available.

For more information on revisions to the economic indicator calendar, visit the briefing room. U.S. Census Bureau Economic Indicators and Census' Recovery Plan for Principal Federal Economic Indicators.

New Version of OnTheMap With 2023 LODES Data

On Dec. 18, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to release updated versions of the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data product and the OnTheMap application. The new LODES 8.4 tabulations will include 2023 data, as well as backfilled data for Mississippi from 2019 to 2022. OnTheMap and LODES includes 2002-2023 employment data for most states.

On Dec. 18, the U.S. Census Bureau will release The Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS). BTOS measures business conditions on an ongoing basis. BTOS experimental data products are representative of all employer businesses other than farms in the U.S. economy. The data allow greater insight into the state of the economy by providing continuous, timely information for key economic measures. Data are released biweekly and are available by sector, state, employment size and the 25 most populous metropolitan statistical areas.