This passage is good timing because it's about the census, and our country is also conducting a census right now. However, this is mainly for a military draft. The current US census is for social services and redistributing electoral college votes (we have something similar for young men called the Selective Draft though).
God told Moses to conduct a census and to count all the men and their families older than 20 years who can go to war. The head from each tribe is going to help conduct the census. The tribes ranging from 30-70 thousand people. The tribe of Levi wasn't counted in the census because they're responsible for the tabernacle, so I'm assuming they don't have to fight in the war.
Now the camps have to organize themselves before they go into the Promised Land. They were to camp around the Tent of Meeting, and God instructed where each tribe should be in relation to the Tent and who should set out first - east, west, north, or south of the Tent. The Levites set out in the middle of the camps. In all, they totaled 603,550 people (minus the Levites).
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