April 1 - The 24th National Census

**renf** · April-01-20, 09:07 AM

Congress designated April 1 as the enumeration day for the constitutionally mandated 24^th 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.

**rickbak** · April-01-20, 11:54 AM

Thanks for the reminder. Just did it online. Took all of 8 minutes [[timed it). Wonder how the virus is going to affect census workers in the neighborhoods.

It's amazing how exquisite the virus's timing is. A prez election year, an Olympic year, a census year, even the NFL's centennial.

**renf** · April-01-20, 01:38 PM

The Census Bureau plans to send non respondents up to three letters in
April encouraging them to submit the census information. Then, the
Census Bureau planned to send out non-response follow-up census
takers starting at the end of April. That has been delayed until, at least,
the middle of May.

**Colombian Dan** · April-02-20, 02:45 PM

Detroit will be lucky if it has 300,000 residents remaining. This virus is spreading fast throughout the police department and now the city council. Just as Zug Island shut down its last blast furnace 2 days ago, Detroit too will fade away......

**Gistok** · April-02-20, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Colombian Dan

Detroit will be lucky if it has 300,000 residents remaining. This virus is spreading fast throughout the police department and now the city council. Just as Zug Island shut down its last blast furnace 2 days ago, Detroit too will fade away......

Geeze... what a Debbie Downer... despite your doom and gloom... Detroit is not losing 1/2 of its population... this is a virus... not the Bubonic Plague...

**rickbak** · April-02-20, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Colombian Dan

Detroit will be lucky if it has 300,000 residents remaining. This virus is spreading fast throughout the police department and now the city council. Just as Zug Island shut down its last blast furnace 2 days ago, Detroit too will fade away......

Yeah, we ain't going nowhere. Folks around here made of sterner stuff than that.

**401don** · April-02-20, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by Colombian Dan

Detroit will be lucky if it has 300,000 residents remaining. This virus is spreading fast throughout the police department and now the city council. Just as Zug Island shut down its last blast furnace 2 days ago, Detroit too will fade away......

Based on your previous posts, I'm surprised you're so optimistic.

**Meddle** · September-20-22, 04:35 PM

Still going .....

https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-...3e6796f2b91133

Detroit sues Census in 2nd fight over population counts

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE SCHNEIDER14 minutes ago

DETROIT [AP] — Detroit sued the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday over population estimates from last year that show it lost an additional 7,100 residents, opening another front against the agency in a battle over how the city's people have been counted in the past two years.

**Henry Whalley** · September-20-22, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Meddle

Detroit...lost an additional 7,100 residents

Yeah, but the good news is that one of them was Reverend Kwame Kilpatrick. The exodus included a few towing contractors who moved to federal penitentiaries as well. So, glass half full.