WASHINGTON — New York will lose two of its 29 House seats as a result of reapportionment, the Census Bureau announced this morning.
The population of the United States grew 9.7 percent over the last decade while New York’s population grew only 2.1 percent.
The total national population on April 1 was 308,745,538.
New York is the country’s third most populous state and the only state to remain in the top five since the first census in 1790.
