WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s official: The new center of the U.S. population is in Missouri, about 2.7 miles northeast of the village of Plato.
The Census Bureau said Thursday that steady migration to the Sun Belt had pushed the site roughly 30 miles southwest of the previous location near Edgar Springs, Mo.
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