April 1 - The 24th National Census
Congress designated April 1 as the enumeration day for the constitutionally mandated 24th census.
If you have not filled out your form, you can easily do so by going to http://my2020census.gov. If you know of someone who does not have broadband access, please tell them to call 844-330-2020. They can easily request a paper copy.
After every census, the Census Bureau conducts a large post enumeration survey to determine who was missed and who was counted twice. Renters, young children, African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans are more likely to be missed than owners, senior citizens and whites. College students and snowbirds are likely to be counted twice. Using this information and focusing on Census 2010, it is
possible that Detroit’s population was undercounted by 6.2%. Wayne County’s by 4.7% and Michigan’s by 4.2%. These are estimates with large standard errors. If everyone living in Detroit had been counted in 2010, the city’s population might have been 760,000 instead of the official count of 714,000. And the state’s population would have 10.3 million instead of the official figures of 9.9 million.
Michigan, because of its slow population growth, will lose one seat in Congress and the Electoral College after the state counts are reported on December 31, 2020. Even if there is much undercount, Michigan will probably not lose two seats. About $1.5 trillion in federal funding is distributed each year to states and local government on the basis of data linked to the census. Michigan obtains upwards of $48 billion each year of that federal funding. Michigan allocates 10% of what is collected in state sales tax to local government on the basis of the census count.
Please encourage your family and friends to fill out their census forms. The information will be
confidential until 2092.
